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Historians

US evidence · AI already used for 1 of 10 main tasks · Check another job

Research, analyze, record, and interpret the past as recorded in sources, such as government and institutional records, newspapers and other periodicals, photographs, interviews, films, electronic media, and unpublished manuscripts, such as personal diaries and letters.

10 main tasks · most important first

Your main tasks and AI

Importance

01Gather historical data from sources such as archives, court records, diaries, news files, and photographs, as well as from books, pamphlets, and periodicals.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
02Organize data, and analyze and interpret its authenticity and relative significance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
03Prepare publications and exhibits, or review those prepared by others, to ensure their historical accuracy.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
04Organize information for publication and for other means of dissemination, such as via storage media or the Internet.AI could speed this up a lot
05Conduct historical research as a basis for the identification, conservation, and reconstruction of historic places and materials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
06Conserve and preserve manuscripts, records, and other artifacts.Mostly human for now
07Present historical accounts in terms of individuals or social, ethnic, political, economic, or geographic groupings.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
08Research the history of a particular country or region, or of a specific time period.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
09Conduct historical research, and publish or present findings and theories.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
10Determine which topics to research, or pursue research topics specified by clients or employers.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.

Checked O*NET 31.0, August 2026Corrections

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Where these numbers come from

O*NET 31.0 Database, US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), 2026-08. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (observed exposure), Anthropic, 2026-03-05. Licence: CC BY.

Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations (v1.1), Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025-12. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

GPTs are GPTs: labor market impact potential of LLMs (Science, 2024), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023. Licence: MIT.

What work can robots do? (robot exposure index), Anthropic, 2026-09-30. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

This page includes information from the O*NET® 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. We have modified this information; USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed or tested these modifications. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. How the Job Check works.

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