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Archivists
Appraise, edit, and direct safekeeping of permanent records and historically valuable documents. Participate in research activities based on archival materials.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Organize archival records and develop classification systems to facilitate access to archival materials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Provide reference services and assistance for users needing archival materials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Prepare archival records, such as document descriptions, to allow easy access to information.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Create and maintain accessible, retrievable computer archives and databases, incorporating current advances in electronic information storage technology.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Establish and administer policy guidelines concerning public access and use of materials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Direct activities of workers who assist in arranging, cataloguing, exhibiting, and maintaining collections of valuable materials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Preserve records, documents, and objects, copying records to film, videotape, audiotape, disk, or computer formats as necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Research and record the origins and historical significance of archival materials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Locate new materials and direct their acquisition and display.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Authenticate and appraise historical documents and archival materials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
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 loss14%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).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 85% 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
Above 42% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.