Job Check
Athletes and Sports Competitors
Compete in athletic events.
9 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Assess performance following athletic competition, identifying strengths and weaknesses and making adjustments to improve future performance.Mostly human for now
- 02Maintain equipment used in a particular sport.Mostly human for now
- 03Attend scheduled practice or training sessions.Mostly human for now
- 04Maintain optimum physical fitness levels by training regularly, following nutrition plans, or consulting with health professionals.Mostly human for now
- 05Participate in athletic events or competitive sports, according to established rules and regulations.Mostly human for now
- 06Exercise or practice under the direction of athletic trainers or professional coaches to develop skills, improve physical condition, or prepare for competitions.Mostly human for now
- 07Receive instructions from coaches or other sports staff prior to events and discuss performance afterwards.Mostly human for now
- 08Represent teams or professional sports clubs, performing such activities as meeting with members of the media, making speeches, or participating in charity events.Mostly human for now
- 09Lead teams by serving as captain.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
0%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 74% 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.
- Assess performance following athletic competition, identifying strengths and weaknesses and making adjustments to improve future performance.
- Maintain equipment used in a particular sport.
- Attend scheduled practice or training sessions.