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Curators
Administer collections, such as artwork, collectibles, historic items, or scientific specimens of museums or other institutions. May conduct instructional, research, or public service activities of institution.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Plan and organize the acquisition, storage, and exhibition of collections and related materials, including the selection of exhibition themes and designs, and develop or install exhibit materials.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Develop and maintain an institution's registration, cataloging, and basic record-keeping systems, using computer databases.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Plan and conduct special research projects in area of interest or expertise.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Provide information from the institution's holdings to other curators and to the public.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Negotiate and authorize purchase, sale, exchange, or loan of collections.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Study, examine, and test acquisitions to authenticate their origin, composition, history, and to assess their current value.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Inspect premises to assess the need for repairs and to ensure that climate and pest control issues are addressed.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Write and review grant proposals, journal articles, institutional reports, and publicity materials.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Design, organize, or conduct tours, workshops, and instructional or educational sessions to acquaint individuals with an institution's facilities and materials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Attend meetings, conventions, and civic events to promote use of institution's services, to seek financing, and to maintain community alliances.Mostly human for now
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 loss41%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
50%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 79% 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 41% 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.
- Attend meetings, conventions, and civic events to promote use of institution's services, to seek financing, and to maintain community alliances.