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Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses in the agricultural sciences. Includes teachers of agronomy, dairy sciences, fisheries management, horticultural sciences, poultry sciences, range management, and agricultural soil conservation. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Supervise laboratory sessions and field work and coordinate laboratory operations.Mostly human for now
- 05Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as crop production, plant genetics, and soil chemistry.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory work, assignments, and papers.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
50%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 95% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Supervise laboratory sessions and field work and coordinate laboratory operations.
- Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.