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Electrical Engineers
Research, design, develop, test, or supervise the manufacturing and installation of electrical equipment, components, or systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Design, implement, maintain, or improve electrical instruments, equipment, facilities, components, products, or systems for commercial, industrial, or domestic purposes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Oversee project production efforts to assure projects are completed on time and within budget.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Direct or coordinate manufacturing, construction, installation, maintenance, support, documentation, or testing activities to ensure compliance with specifications, codes, or customer requirements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Perform detailed calculations to compute and establish manufacturing, construction, or installation standards or specifications.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Operate computer-assisted engineering or design software or equipment to perform engineering tasks.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Confer with engineers, customers, or others to discuss existing or potential engineering projects or products.Mostly human for now
- 07Investigate or test vendors' or competitors' products.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Inspect completed installations and observe operations to ensure conformance to design and equipment specifications and compliance with operational, safety, or environmental standards.Mostly human for now
- 09Investigate customer or public complaints to determine the nature and extent of problems.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Prepare technical drawings, specifications of electrical systems, or topographical maps to ensure that installation and operations conform to standards and customer requirements.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 loss6%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
56%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 33% 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
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Confer with engineers, customers, or others to discuss existing or potential engineering projects or products.
- Inspect completed installations and observe operations to ensure conformance to design and equipment specifications and compliance with operational, safety, or environmental standards.