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Compliance Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate activities of an organization to ensure compliance with ethical or regulatory standards.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Report violations of compliance or regulatory standards to duly authorized enforcement agencies as appropriate or required.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Identify compliance issues that require follow-up or investigation.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Discuss emerging compliance issues to ensure that management and employees are informed about compliance reporting systems, policies, and practices.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04File appropriate compliance reports with regulatory agencies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Maintain documentation of compliance activities, such as complaints received or investigation outcomes.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Consult with corporate attorneys as necessary to address difficult legal compliance issues.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Conduct or direct the internal investigation of compliance issues.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Provide employee training on compliance related topics, policies, or procedures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Serve as a confidential point of contact for employees to communicate with management, seek clarification on issues or dilemmas, or report irregularities.Mostly human for now
- 10Verify that all regulatory policies and procedures have been documented, implemented, and communicated.People already use AI for this at work
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 loss7%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
52%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 49% 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.
- Serve as a confidential point of contact for employees to communicate with management, seek clarification on issues or dilemmas, or report irregularities.