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Dietitians and Nutritionists
Plan and conduct food service or nutritional programs to assist in the promotion of health and control of disease. May supervise activities of a department providing quantity food services, counsel individuals, or conduct nutritional research.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions, and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Evaluate laboratory tests in preparing nutrition recommendations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans, diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Incorporate patient cultural, ethnic, or religious preferences and needs in the development of nutrition plans.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Record and evaluate patient and family health and food history, including symptoms, environmental toxic exposure, allergies, medication factors, and preventive health-care measures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Develop recipes and menus to address special nutrition needs, such as low glycemic, low histamine, or gluten- or allergen-free.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Coordinate diet counseling services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Develop curriculum and prepare manuals, visual aids, course outlines, and other materials used in teaching.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
55%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 74% 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 42% 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.