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New Accounts Clerks
Interview persons desiring to open accounts in financial institutions. Explain account services available to prospective customers and assist them in preparing applications.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Perform teller duties as required.Mostly human for now
- 02Compile information about new accounts, enter account information into computers, and file related forms or other documents.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Collect and record customer deposits and fees and issue receipts, using computers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Inform customers of procedures for applying for services, such as ATM cards, direct deposit of checks, and certificates of deposit.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Answer customers' questions and explain available services, such as deposit accounts, bonds, and securities.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Interview customers to obtain information needed for opening accounts or renting safe-deposit boxes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Refer customers to appropriate bank personnel to meet their financial needs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Investigate and correct errors upon customers' request, according to customer and bank records.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Execute wire transfers of funds.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Issue initial and replacement safe-deposit keys to customers, and admit customers to vaults.Mostly human for now
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
56%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 89% 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 67% 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.
- Perform teller duties as required.
- Issue initial and replacement safe-deposit keys to customers, and admit customers to vaults.