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Security Managers
Direct an organization's security functions, including physical security and safety of employees and facilities.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Develop budgets for security operations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Identify, investigate, or resolve security breaches.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Plan, direct, or coordinate security activities to safeguard company employees, guests, or others on company property.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Direct or participate in emergency management and contingency planning.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Respond to medical emergencies, bomb threats, fire alarms, or intrusion alarms, following emergency response procedures.Mostly human for now
- 06Analyze and evaluate security operations to identify risks or opportunities for improvement through auditing, review, or assessment.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Create or implement security standards, policies, and procedures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Assess risks to mitigate potential consequences of incidents and develop a plan to respond to incidents.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Supervise or provide leadership to subordinate security professionals, performing activities such as hiring, investigating applicants' backgrounds, training, assigning work, evaluating performance, or disciplining.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Develop, implement, manage, or evaluate policies and methods to protect personnel against harassment, threats, or violence.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 loss14%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
48%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 15% 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
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Respond to medical emergencies, bomb threats, fire alarms, or intrusion alarms, following emergency response procedures.