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Clergy
Conduct religious worship and perform other spiritual functions associated with beliefs and practices of religious faith or denomination. Provide spiritual and moral guidance and assistance to members.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Pray and promote spirituality.Mostly human for now
- 02Prepare and deliver sermons or other talks.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Read from sacred texts, such as the Bible, Torah, or Koran.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Organize and lead regular religious services.Mostly human for now
- 05Instruct people who seek conversion to a particular faith.Mostly human for now
- 06Share information about religious issues by writing articles, giving speeches, or teaching.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Counsel individuals or groups concerning their spiritual, emotional, or personal needs.Mostly human for now
- 08Administer religious rites or ordinances.Mostly human for now
- 09Prepare people for participation in religious ceremonies.Mostly human for now
- 10Visit people in homes, hospitals, or prisons to provide them with comfort and support.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 loss11%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
33%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 85% 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.
- Pray and promote spirituality.
- Organize and lead regular religious services.
- Instruct people who seek conversion to a particular faith.