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Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses in biological sciences. 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- 01Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory work, assignments, and papers.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as molecular biology, marine biology, and botany.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, and course materials and methods of instruction.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Prepare materials for laboratory activities and course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.Mostly human for now
- 06Supervise students' laboratory work.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Keep 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
- 08Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.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 loss29%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
47%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 84% 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.
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.