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Network and Computer Systems Administrators
Install, configure, and maintain an organization's local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), data communications network, operating systems, and physical and virtual servers. Perform system monitoring and verify the integrity and availability of hardware, network, and server resources and systems. Review system and application logs and verify completion of scheduled jobs, including system backups. Analyze network and server resource consumption and control user access. Install and upgrade software and maintain software licenses. May assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures to protect data, software, and hardware.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments, including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Configure, monitor, and maintain email applications or virus protection software.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Confer with network users about solutions to existing system problems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Operate master consoles to monitor the performance of computer systems and networks and to coordinate computer network access and use.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Maintain logs related to network functions, as well as maintenance and repair records.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Monitor network performance to determine whether adjustments are needed and where changes will be needed in the future.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Design, configure, and test computer hardware, networking software and operating system software.People already use AI for this at work
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 loss34%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
73%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 80% 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 34% 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
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.
AI tools for your work
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