Job Check
Legislators
Develop, introduce, or enact laws and statutes at the local, tribal, state, or federal level. Includes only workers in elected positions.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Analyze and understand the local and national implications of proposed legislation.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Appoint nominees to leadership posts, or approve such appointments.Mostly human for now
- 03Confer with colleagues to formulate positions and strategies pertaining to pending issues.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Debate the merits of proposals and bill amendments during floor sessions, following the appropriate rules of procedure.Mostly human for now
- 05Develop expertise in subject matters related to committee assignments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Hear testimony from constituents, representatives of interest groups, board and commission members, and others with an interest in bills or issues under consideration.Mostly human for now
- 07Keep abreast of the issues affecting constituents by making personal visits and phone calls, reading local newspapers, and viewing or listening to local broadcasts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Maintain knowledge of relevant national and international current events.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Make decisions that balance the perspectives of private citizens, public officials, and party leaders.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Negotiate with colleagues or members of other political parties in order to reconcile differing interests, and to create policies and agreements.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
40%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 84% 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.
- Appoint nominees to leadership posts, or approve such appointments.
- Debate the merits of proposals and bill amendments during floor sessions, following the appropriate rules of procedure.
- Hear testimony from constituents, representatives of interest groups, board and commission members, and others with an interest in bills or issues under consideration.