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Community Health Workers
Promote health within a community by assisting individuals to adopt healthy behaviors. Serve as an advocate for the health needs of individuals by assisting community residents in effectively communicating with healthcare providers or social service agencies. Act as liaison or advocate and implement programs that promote, maintain, and improve individual and overall community health. May deliver health-related preventive services such as blood pressure, glaucoma, and hearing screenings. May collect data to help identify community health needs.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Report incidences of child or elder abuse, neglect, or threats of harm to authorities, as required.Mostly human for now
- 02Monitor nutrition of children, elderly, or other high-risk groups.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Maintain updated client records with plans, notes, appropriate forms, or related information.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Contact clients in person, by phone, or in writing to ensure they have completed required or recommended actions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Advise clients or community groups on issues related to self-care, such as diabetes management.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Refer community members to needed health services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Advise clients or community groups on issues related to improving general health, such as diet or exercise.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Develop plans or formal contracts for individuals, families, or community groups to improve overall health.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Advocate for individual or community health needs with government agencies or health service providers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Identify the particular health care needs of individuals in a community or target area.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
32%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 87% 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 53% 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.
- Report incidences of child or elder abuse, neglect, or threats of harm to authorities, as required.