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Chiropractors
Assess, treat, and care for patients by manipulation of spine and musculoskeletal system. May provide spinal adjustment or address sacral or pelvic misalignment.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Perform a series of manual adjustments to the spine or other articulations of the body to correct the musculoskeletal system.Mostly human for now
- 02Obtain and record patients' medical histories.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Diagnose health problems by reviewing patients' health and medical histories, questioning, observing, and examining patients and interpreting x-rays.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Evaluate the functioning of the neuromuscularskeletal system and the spine using systems of chiropractic diagnosis.Mostly human for now
- 05Maintain accurate case histories of patients.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Consult with or refer patients to appropriate health practitioners when necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Advise patients about recommended courses of treatment.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Counsel patients about nutrition, exercise, sleeping habits, stress management, or other matters.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Provide guidance to patients on exercises they can perform to improve mobility.No rating yet
- 10Analyze x-rays to locate the sources of patients' difficulties and to rule out fractures or diseases as sources of problems.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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.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 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
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.
- Perform a series of manual adjustments to the spine or other articulations of the body to correct the musculoskeletal system.
- Evaluate the functioning of the neuromuscularskeletal system and the spine using systems of chiropractic diagnosis.