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Residential Advisors
Coordinate activities in resident facilities in secondary school and college dormitories, group homes, or similar establishments. Order supplies and determine need for maintenance, repairs, and furnishings. May maintain household records and assign rooms. May assist residents with problem solving or refer them to counseling resources.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Communicate with other staff to resolve problems with individual students.Mostly human for now
- 02Observe students to detect and report unusual behavior.Mostly human for now
- 03Supervise, train, and evaluate residence hall staff, including resident assistants, participants in work-study programs, and other student workers.Mostly human for now
- 04Provide emergency first aid and summon medical assistance when necessary.Mostly human for now
- 05Make regular rounds to ensure that residents and areas are safe and secure.Mostly human for now
- 06Mediate interpersonal problems between residents.Mostly human for now
- 07Enforce rules and regulations to ensure the smooth and orderly operation of dormitory programs.Mostly human for now
- 08Determine the need for facility maintenance and repair, and notify appropriate personnel.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Collaborate with counselors to develop counseling programs that address the needs of individual students.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Develop and coordinate educational programs for residents.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
24%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 48% 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 51% 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.
- Communicate with other staff to resolve problems with individual students.
- Observe students to detect and report unusual behavior.
- Supervise, train, and evaluate residence hall staff, including resident assistants, participants in work-study programs, and other student workers.