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Economists
Conduct research, prepare reports, or formulate plans to address economic problems related to the production and distribution of goods and services or monetary and fiscal policy. May collect and process economic and statistical data using sampling techniques and econometric methods.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Study economic and statistical data in area of specialization, such as finance, labor, or agriculture.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Compile, analyze, and report data to explain economic phenomena and forecast market trends, applying mathematical models and statistical techniques.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Study the socioeconomic impacts of new public policies, such as proposed legislation, taxes, services, and regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Explain economic impact of policies to the public.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Review documents written by others.No rating yet
- 06Provide advice and consultation on economic relationships to businesses, public and private agencies, and other employers.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Formulate recommendations, policies, or plans to solve economic problems or to interpret markets.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Supervise research projects and students' study projects.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Conduct research on economic issues, and disseminate research findings through technical reports or scientific articles in journals.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Develop economic guidelines and standards, and prepare points of view used in forecasting trends and formulating economic policy.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 loss24%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 94% 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
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.