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Writers and Authors
Originate and prepare written material, such as scripts, stories, advertisements, and other material.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Write fiction or nonfiction prose, such as short stories, novels, biographies, articles, descriptive or critical analyses, and essays.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Revise written material to meet personal standards and to satisfy needs of clients, publishers, directors, or producers.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Present drafts and ideas to clients.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Edit or rewrite existing written material as necessary, and submit written material for approval by supervisor, editor, or publisher.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Conduct research to obtain factual information and authentic detail, using sources such as newspaper accounts, diaries, and interviews.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Vary language and tone of messages based on product and medium.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Write articles, bulletins, sales letters, speeches, and other related informative, marketing and promotional material.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Write advertising material for use by publication, broadcast, or internet media to promote the sale of goods and services.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Write to customers in their terms and on their level so that the script, story, or advertisement message is more readily received.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Prepare works in appropriate format for publication, and send them to publishers or producers.AI could speed this up a lot
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 loss25%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
87%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 100% 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.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps writers and editors use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.