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Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses in drama, music, and the arts including fine and applied art, such as painting and sculpture, or design and crafts. 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- 01Explain and demonstrate artistic techniques.Mostly human for now
- 02Evaluate and grade students' class work, performances, projects, assignments, and papers.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Prepare students for performances, exams, or assessments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.Mostly human for now
- 05Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as acting techniques, fundamentals of music, and art history.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Keep 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
- 09Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.People already use AI for this at work
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 loss21%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
44%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 93% 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 29% 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
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Explain and demonstrate artistic techniques.
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.