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Tutors
Instruct individual students or small groups of students in academic subjects to support formal class instruction or to prepare students for standardized or admissions tests.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Provide feedback to students, using positive reinforcement techniques to encourage, motivate, or build confidence in students.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Review class material with students by discussing text, working solutions to problems, or reviewing worksheets or other assignments.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Assess students' progress throughout tutoring sessions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Teach students study skills, note-taking skills, and test-taking strategies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Provide private instruction to individual or small groups of students to improve academic performance, improve occupational skills, or prepare for academic or occupational tests.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Participate in training and development sessions to improve tutoring practices or learn new tutoring techniques.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Collaborate with students, parents, teachers, school administrators, or counselors to determine student needs, develop tutoring plans, or assess student progress.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Monitor student performance or assist students in academic environments, such as classrooms, laboratories, or computing centers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Schedule tutoring appointments with students or their parents.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Organize tutoring environment to promote productivity and learning.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 loss41%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
54%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 86% 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 35% 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.
- Organize tutoring environment to promote productivity and learning.