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Natural Sciences Managers
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.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss6%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
57%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 34% 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
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.