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Regulatory Affairs Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate production activities of an organization to ensure compliance with regulations and standard operating procedures.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Develop regulatory strategies and implementation plans for the preparation and submission of new products.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Review all regulatory agency submission materials to ensure timeliness, accuracy, comprehensiveness, or compliance with regulatory standards.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Direct the preparation and submission of regulatory agency applications, reports, or correspondence.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Investigate product complaints and prepare documentation and submissions to appropriate regulatory agencies as necessary.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Provide responses to regulatory agencies regarding product information or issues.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Represent organizations before domestic or international regulatory agencies on major policy matters or decisions regarding company products.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Provide regulatory guidance to departments or development project teams regarding design, development, evaluation, or marketing of products.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Manage activities such as audits, regulatory agency inspections, or product recalls.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Communicate regulatory information to multiple departments and ensure that information is interpreted correctly.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Maintain current knowledge of relevant regulations, including proposed and final rules.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 loss7%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
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 49% 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.