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Emergency Management Directors
Plan and direct disaster response or crisis management activities, provide disaster preparedness training, and prepare emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g., hurricanes, floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies or hazardous materials spills) disasters or hostage situations.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Consult with officials of local and area governments, schools, hospitals, and other institutions to determine their needs and capabilities in the event of a natural disaster or other emergency.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Develop and maintain liaisons with municipalities, county departments, and similar entities to facilitate plan development, response effort coordination, and exchanges of personnel and equipment.Mostly human for now
- 03Coordinate disaster response or crisis management activities, such as ordering evacuations, opening public shelters, and implementing special needs plans and programs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Prepare emergency situation status reports that describe response and recovery efforts, needs, and preliminary damage assessments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Maintain and update all resource materials associated with emergency preparedness plans.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Prepare plans that outline operating procedures to be used in response to disasters or emergencies, such as hurricanes, nuclear accidents, and terrorist attacks, and in recovery from these events.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Develop and perform tests and evaluations of emergency management plans in accordance with state and federal regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Collaborate with other officials to prepare and analyze damage assessments following disasters or emergencies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Design and administer emergency or disaster preparedness training courses that teach people how to effectively respond to major emergencies and disasters.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Keep informed of activities or changes that could affect the likelihood of an emergency, response efforts, or plan implementation.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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
42%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 66% 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 29% 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.
- Develop and maintain liaisons with municipalities, county departments, and similar entities to facilitate plan development, response effort coordination, and exchanges of personnel and equipment.