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File Clerks
File correspondence, cards, invoices, receipts, and other records in alphabetical or numerical order or according to the filing system used. Locate and remove material from file when requested.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Perform general office activities, such as typing, answering telephones, operating office machines, processing mail, or securing confidential materials.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Keep records of materials filed or removed, using logbooks or computers and generate computerized reports.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Gather materials to be filed from departments or employees.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Find, retrieve, and make copies of information from files in response to requests and deliver information to authorized users.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Add new material to file records or create new records as necessary.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Sort or classify information according to guidelines, such as content, purpose, user criteria, or chronological, alphabetical, or numerical order.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Scan or read incoming materials to determine how and where they should be classified or filed.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Eliminate outdated or unnecessary materials, destroying them or transferring them to inactive storage, according to file maintenance guidelines or legal requirements.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Answer questions about records or files.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Assign and record or stamp identification numbers or codes to index materials for filing.AI could speed this up a lot
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 loss16%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
79%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 80% 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 71% 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.