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Intelligence Analysts
Gather, analyze, or evaluate information from a variety of sources, such as law enforcement databases, surveillance, intelligence networks or geographic information systems. Use intelligence data to anticipate and prevent organized crime activities, such as terrorism.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Validate known intelligence with data from other sources.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Gather, analyze, correlate, or evaluate information from a variety of resources, such as law enforcement databases.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Evaluate records of communications, such as telephone calls, to plot activity and determine the size and location of criminal groups and members.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Gather intelligence information by field observation, confidential information sources, or public records.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Analyze intelligence data to identify patterns and trends in criminal activity.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Prepare comprehensive written reports, presentations, maps, or charts, based on research, collection, and analysis of intelligence data.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Collaborate with representatives from other government and intelligence organizations to share information or coordinate intelligence activities.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Link or chart suspects to criminal organizations or events to determine activities and interrelationships.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Establish criminal profiles to aid in connecting criminal organizations with their members.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Identify gaps in information.No rating yet
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 loss4%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
53%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 48% 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 35% 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.