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Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses pertaining to the chemical and physical properties and compositional changes of substances. Work may include providing instruction in the methods of qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis. 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- 01Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, and chemical separation.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Establish, teach, and monitor students' compliance with safety rules for handling chemicals, equipment, and other hazardous materials.Mostly human for now
- 03Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory performance, assignments, and papers.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Supervise students' laboratory work.Mostly human for now
- 05Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, and course materials and methods of instruction.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.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 loss22%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
43%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 80% 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 33% 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.
- Establish, teach, and monitor students' compliance with safety rules for handling chemicals, equipment, and other hazardous materials.
- Supervise students' laboratory work.
- Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.