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Childcare Workers
Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Maintain a safe play environment.Mostly human for now
- 02Observe and monitor children's play activities.Mostly human for now
- 03Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.Mostly human for now
- 04Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.Mostly human for now
- 05Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for people with disabilities.Mostly human for now
- 06Sanitize toys and play equipment.Mostly human for now
- 07Dress children and change diapers.Mostly human for now
- 08Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.Mostly human for now
- 10Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.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 loss1%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
15%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 54% 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 45% 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.
- Maintain a safe play environment.
- Observe and monitor children's play activities.
- Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.