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Chief Executives
Determine and formulate policies and provide overall direction of companies or private and public sector organizations within guidelines set up by a board of directors or similar governing body. Plan, direct, or coordinate operational activities at the highest level of management with the help of subordinate executives and staff managers.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Direct or coordinate an organization's financial or budget activities to fund operations, maximize investments, or increase efficiency.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Confer with board members, organization officials, or staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities, or resolve problems.Mostly human for now
- 03Prepare budgets for approval, including those for funding or implementation of programs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Direct, plan, or implement policies, objectives, or activities of organizations or businesses to ensure continuing operations, to maximize returns on investments, or to increase productivity.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Prepare or present reports concerning activities, expenses, budgets, government statutes or rulings, or other items affecting businesses or program services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Implement corrective action plans to solve organizational or departmental problems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Analyze operations to evaluate performance of a company or its staff in meeting objectives or to determine areas of potential cost reduction, program improvement, or policy change.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Direct or coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with production, pricing, sales, or distribution of products.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Direct human resources activities, including the approval of human resource plans or activities, the selection of directors or other high-level staff, or establishment or organization of major departments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Appoint department heads or managers and assign or delegate responsibilities to them.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 loss3%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
46%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 53% 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.
- Confer with board members, organization officials, or staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities, or resolve problems.
- Appoint department heads or managers and assign or delegate responsibilities to them.