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Natural Sciences Managers

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

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, statistics, and research and development in these fields.

10 main tasks · most important first

Your main tasks and AI

Importance

01Hire, supervise, or evaluate engineers, technicians, researchers, or other staff.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
02Design or coordinate successive phases of problem analysis, solution proposals, or testing.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
03Plan or direct research, development, or production activities.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
04Review project activities and prepare and review research, testing, or operational reports.People already use AI for this at work
05Confer with scientists, engineers, regulators, or others to plan or review projects or to provide technical assistance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
06Develop client relationships and communicate with clients to explain proposals, present research findings, establish specifications, or discuss project status.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
07Determine scientific or technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management and make detailed plans to accomplish these goals.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
08Prepare project proposals.AI could speed this up a lot
09Develop or implement policies, standards, or procedures for the architectural, scientific, or technical work performed to ensure regulatory compliance or operations enhancement.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
10Recruit personnel or oversee the development or maintenance of staff competence.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.

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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