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Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks
Authorize credit charges against customers' accounts. Investigate history and credit standing of individuals or business establishments applying for credit. May interview applicants to obtain personal and financial data, determine credit worthiness, process applications, and notify customers of acceptance or rejection of credit.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Keep records of customers' charges and payments.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Compile and analyze credit information gathered by investigation.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Obtain information about potential creditors from banks, credit bureaus, and other credit services, and provide reciprocal information if requested.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Interview credit applicants by telephone or in person to obtain personal and financial data needed to complete credit report.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Evaluate customers' computerized credit records and payment histories to decide whether to approve new credit, based on predetermined standards.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06File sales slips in customers' ledgers for billing purposes.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Receive charge slips or credit applications by mail, or receive information from salespeople or merchants by telephone.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Mail charge statements to customers.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Examine city directories and public records to verify residence property ownership, bankruptcies, liens, arrest record, or unpaid taxes of applicants.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Relay credit report information to subscribers by mail or by telephone.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 loss13%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
65%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 64% 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 37% 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.