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Athletic Trainers
Evaluate and treat musculoskeletal injuries or illnesses. Provide preventive, therapeutic, emergency, and rehabilitative care.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Conduct an initial assessment of an athlete's injury or illness to provide emergency or continued care and to determine whether they should be referred to physicians for definitive diagnosis and treatment.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Assess and report the progress of recovering athletes to coaches or physicians.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Care for athletic injuries, using physical therapy equipment, techniques, or medication.Mostly human for now
- 04Evaluate athletes' readiness to play and provide participation clearances when necessary and warranted.Mostly human for now
- 05Perform general administrative tasks, such as keeping records or writing reports.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Clean and sanitize athletic training rooms.Mostly human for now
- 07Instruct coaches, athletes, parents, medical personnel, or community members in the care and prevention of athletic injuries.Mostly human for now
- 08Apply protective or injury preventive devices, such as tape, bandages, or braces, to body parts, such as ankles, fingers, or wrists.Mostly human for now
- 09Collaborate with physicians to develop and implement comprehensive rehabilitation programs for athletic injuries.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Travel with athletic teams to be available at sporting events.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 loss5%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
28%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 34% 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 49% 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.
- Care for athletic injuries, using physical therapy equipment, techniques, or medication.
- Evaluate athletes' readiness to play and provide participation clearances when necessary and warranted.
- Clean and sanitize athletic training rooms.