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Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners
Use verbatim methods and equipment to capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information. Includes stenocaptioners who operate computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide captions of live or prerecorded broadcasts for hearing-impaired viewers.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Provide transcripts of proceedings upon request of judges, lawyers, or the public.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Record symbols on computer storage media and use computer aided transcription to translate and display them as text.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Record verbatim proceedings of courts, legislative assemblies, committee meetings, and other proceedings, using computerized recording equipment, electronic stenograph machines, or stenomasks.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Record depositions and other proceedings for attorneys.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Ask speakers to clarify inaudible statements.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Proofread transcripts for correct spelling of words.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07File a legible transcript of records of a court case with the court clerk's office.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Transcribe recorded proceedings in accordance with established formats.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Take notes in shorthand or use a stenotype or shorthand machine that prints letters on a paper tape.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10File and store shorthand notes of court session.AI could speed this up a lot
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 loss34%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
96%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 68% 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 31% 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
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
AI tools for your work
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