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Radiologists
Diagnose and treat diseases and injuries using medical imaging techniques, such as x rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear medicine, and ultrasounds. May perform minimally invasive medical procedures and tests.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Prepare comprehensive interpretive reports of findings.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Perform or interpret the outcomes of diagnostic imaging procedures including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), nuclear cardiology treadmill studies, mammography, or ultrasound.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Document the performance, interpretation, or outcomes of all procedures performed.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Communicate examination results or diagnostic information to referring physicians, patients, or families.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Obtain patients' histories from electronic records, patient interviews, dictated reports, or by communicating with referring clinicians.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Review or transmit images and information using picture archiving or communications systems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Confer with medical professionals regarding image-based diagnoses.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Recognize or treat complications during and after procedures, including blood pressure problems, pain, oversedation, or bleeding.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Develop or monitor procedures to ensure adequate quality control of images.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Provide counseling to radiologic patients to explain the processes, risks, benefits, or alternative treatments.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 loss20%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
49%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 47% 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.