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Direct activities such as autopsies, pathological and toxicological analyses, and inquests relating to the investigation of deaths occurring within a legal jurisdiction to determine cause of death or to fix responsibility for accidental, violent, or unexplained deaths.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Complete death certificates, including the assignment of cause and manner of death.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Perform medicolegal examinations and autopsies, conducting preliminary examinations of the body to identify victims, locate signs of trauma, and identify factors that would indicate time of death.Mostly human for now
- 03Interview persons present at death scenes to obtain information useful in determining the manner of death.Mostly human for now
- 04Observe and record the positions and conditions of bodies and related evidence.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Provide information concerning the circumstances of death to relatives of the deceased.Mostly human for now
- 06Remove or supervise removal of bodies from death scenes, using the proper equipment and supplies, and arrange for transportation to morgues.Mostly human for now
- 07Inquire into the cause, manner, and circumstances of human deaths and establish the identities of deceased persons.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Observe, record, and preserve any objects or personal property related to deaths, including objects such as medication containers and suicide notes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Complete reports and forms required to finalize cases.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Arrange for the next of kin to be notified of deaths.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 loss12%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
34%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 67% 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 33% 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.
- Perform medicolegal examinations and autopsies, conducting preliminary examinations of the body to identify victims, locate signs of trauma, and identify factors that would indicate time of death.
- Interview persons present at death scenes to obtain information useful in determining the manner of death.
- Provide information concerning the circumstances of death to relatives of the deceased.