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Animal Scientists
Conduct research in the genetics, nutrition, reproduction, growth, and development of domestic farm animals.
9 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Study nutritional requirements of animals and nutritive values of animal feed materials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Write up or orally communicate research findings to the scientific community, producers, and the public.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Develop improved practices in feeding, housing, sanitation, or parasite and disease control of animals.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Advise producers about improved products and techniques that could enhance their animal production efforts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Conduct research concerning animal nutrition, breeding, or management to improve products or processes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Study effects of management practices, processing methods, feed, or environmental conditions on quality and quantity of animal products, such as eggs and milk.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Research and control animal selection and breeding practices to increase production efficiency and improve animal quality.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Determine genetic composition of animal populations and heritability of traits, using principles of genetics.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Crossbreed animals with existing strains or cross strains to obtain new combinations of desirable characteristics.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
53%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 83% 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.
- Crossbreed animals with existing strains or cross strains to obtain new combinations of desirable characteristics.