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Midwives
Provide prenatal care and childbirth assistance.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.Mostly human for now
- 02Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.Mostly human for now
- 04Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.Mostly human for now
- 06Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns.Mostly human for now
- 07Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary.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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
38%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 46% 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 36% 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.
- Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
- Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.
- Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.