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Media Technical Directors/Managers
Coordinate activities of technical departments, such as taping, editing, engineering, and maintenance, to produce radio or television programs.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Switch between video sources in a studio or on multi-camera remotes, using equipment such as switchers, video slide projectors, and video effects generators.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Observe pictures through monitors and direct camera and video staff concerning shading and composition.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Supervise and assign duties to workers engaged in technical control and production of radio and television programs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Monitor broadcasts to ensure that programs conform to station or network policies and regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Operate equipment to produce programs or broadcast live programs from remote locations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Test equipment to ensure proper operation.Mostly human for now
- 07Train workers in use of equipment, such as switchers, cameras, monitors, microphones, and lights.Mostly human for now
- 08Act as liaisons between engineering and production departments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Collaborate with promotions directors to produce on-air station promotions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Confer with operations directors to formulate and maintain fair and attainable technical policies for programs.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 loss9%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
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 57% 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 46% 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.
- Test equipment to ensure proper operation.
- Train workers in use of equipment, such as switchers, cameras, monitors, microphones, and lights.