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Social and Community Service Managers
establishing and overseeing administrative procedures to meet objectives set by boards of directors or senior management, providing direct service and supporting to individuals or clients and recruiting, interviewing. If that's your week, this page is about your job.
The honest answer
This job is splitting in two: preparing and maintaining records and reports is work AI now does quickly and cheaply, and directing activities of professional and technical staff members and volunteers is work it can't touch.
Which half fills your week decides your exposure. Moving toward the second half is a real, doable plan.
Your week, as this page understands it
Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of a social service program or community outreach organization. Oversee the program or organization's budget and policies regarding participant involvement, program requirements, and benefits. Work may involve directing social workers, counselors, or probation officers. The job title says “social” or “community service managers”: officially one job, two names. The real job is the part underneath: directing activities of professional and technical staff members and volunteers. That is the thing someone has to be right about.
The exposed part of this job is specific, and we won’t pretend it is coming back. But social and community service managers is not one task. It is 16 scored ones, and they are nowhere near equally exposed. The most durable of them, on this evidence, is directing activities of professional and technical staff members and volunteers, and the ledger below shows exactly why.
Where the work sits, by task weight
- shifting to AI
- 37%
- changing shape
- 31%
- staying human
- 33%
These bars are tasks changing hands, not people being counted out. The ledger below shows which.
Whole-job exposure score 49 out of 100 (43–54 allowing for uncertainty): partial exposure, across 16 scored tasks. The number is the support for the sentence above it, not a headline about anyone’s future.
How we know this
What is measured: Every published task statement for social and community service managers is rated on five dimensions: can a model produce the output, does the work need a body in a room, does it need a legally accountable person, does it depend on a person being trusted in the moment, and how much data exists. A published formula turns those five ratings into the score; the model never writes the number.
How the bar is built: Each task’s share of the bar is its published importance weight, so a task you do all day counts for more than one you do twice a year.
Release: 2026-q4.1, scores computed 2026-08-04. Read the full method.
Your job, task by task
These are the official task statements for this occupation, in plain English, sorted by what the evidence says is happening to each one. The official wording sits under every line so you can check the rewrite against it.
- 1 of this occupation's scored task statements carry a score that was measured under a different occupation's context, because the statement is shared between jobs and has only been scored once so far. Each one names the occupation it was measured under in the free routes below; none is presented as a measurement for this job.
- Task clusters are not derived in this release, so the task-cluster field is empty and no Collab365 Space routing is attached to this occupation yet.
Shifting to AI
6 tasksTasks today’s tools can already do most of. This is the part we will not soften: where these rows are the bulk of your week, the week changes.
Establishing and overseeing administrative procedures to meet objectives set by boards of directors or senior management
This is reading one thing and writing another: administrative procedures in, a record out. That is the shape today's tools are built for.
importance 4 · CoreSource: “Establish and oversee administrative procedures to meet objectives set by boards of directors or senior management.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 64 out of 100 (60–68 allowing for uncertainty): high exposure, high confidence.
Why it sits in this group: reading one thing and writing another; the same decision, made over and over; mistakes that are cheap to catch.
The rating behind it: Administrative procedures follow documented practice, so drafting and tracking them is well within software's reach.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 3/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 1/4 · how much data exists 3/4.
Preparing and maintaining records and reports
This is reading one thing and writing another: records in, a record out. That is the shape today's tools are built for.
importance 4 · CoreSource: “Prepare and maintain records and reports, such as budgets, personnel records, or training manuals.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 93 out of 100 (89–97 allowing for uncertainty): very high exposure, high confidence.
Why it sits in this group: reading one thing and writing another; the same decision, made over and over; mistakes that are cheap to catch.
The rating behind it: Budgets, personnel records and training manuals are documents software produces and maintains reliably.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 4/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 0/4 · how much data exists 3/4.
Researching and analyzing member or community needs to determine program directions and goals
This is reading one thing and writing another: member in, a record out. That is the shape today's tools are built for.
importance 4 · CoreSource: “Research and analyze member or community needs to determine program directions and goals.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 75 out of 100 (71–79 allowing for uncertainty): high exposure, high confidence.
Why it sits in this group: reading one thing and writing another; the same decision, made over and over; mistakes that are cheap to catch.
The rating behind it: Researching community needs from survey and service data is analysis software does quickly and well.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 3/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 0/4 · how much data exists 3/4.
Acting as consultants to agency staff and other community programs regarding the interpretation of program-related federal
This is reading one thing and writing another: consultants in, a record out. That is the shape today's tools are built for.
importance 4 · CoreSource: “Act as consultants to agency staff and other community programs regarding the interpretation of program-related federal, state, and county regulations and policies.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 70 out of 100 (66–74 allowing for uncertainty): high exposure, high confidence.
Why it sits in this group: reading one thing and writing another; the same decision, made over and over; mistakes that are cheap to catch.
The rating behind it: Program rules and regulations are published in detail, so explaining what they mean is a real strength.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 3/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 1/4 · how much data exists 4/4.
Changing shape
5 tasksTasks where the machine takes the producing and a person keeps the checking, the deciding, or the answering-for-it. For most jobs this is the biggest group, and it is where "transformation, not termination" is literally visible.
Evaluating the work of staff and volunteers to ensure that programs are of appropriate quality and that resources are used effectively
The software now makes the first pass at the work of staff, but the deciding part still needs a person. So the job becomes checking and deciding rather than producing.
importance 4 · CoreSource: “Evaluate the work of staff and volunteers to ensure that programs are of appropriate quality and that resources are used effectively.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 49 out of 100 (42–56 allowing for uncertainty): partial exposure, medium confidence.
Why it sits in this group: the same decision, made over and over; mistakes that are cheap to catch.
The rating behind it: Quality and spending data analyze easily, though judging staff and volunteers takes someone who knows the work.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 2/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 1/4 · how much data exists 3/4.
Participating in the determination of organizational policies regarding such issues as participant eligibility
The software now makes the first pass at the determination of organizational policies, but the deciding part still needs a person. So the job becomes checking and deciding rather than producing.
importance 4 · CoreSource: “Participate in the determination of organizational policies regarding such issues as participant eligibility, program requirements, and program benefits.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 49 out of 100 (42–56 allowing for uncertainty): partial exposure, medium confidence.
Why it sits in this group: the same decision, made over and over; mistakes that are cheap to catch.
The rating behind it: Options and evidence can be prepared, but taking part in a policy decision means having a seat at the table.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 2/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 1/4 · how much data exists 3/4.
Recruiting, interviewing and hiring or signing up volunteers and staff
The software now makes the first pass at volunteers, but the part that matters is a person saying it and standing behind it. So the job becomes checking and deciding rather than producing.
importance 4 · CoreSource: “Recruit, interview, and hire or sign up volunteers and staff.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 40 out of 100 (33–47 allowing for uncertainty): partial exposure, medium confidence.
Why it sits in this group: the same decision, made over and over; the value is that a specific person does it.
The rating behind it: Adverts and screening are easy to automate, but interviewing and signing up volunteers is done face to face.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 2/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 2/4 · how much data exists 3/4.
Staying human
5 tasksTasks that stay with a person, because they happen in the physical world, because the rules need someone accountable, or because the value is that a specific person does them.
Directing activities of professional and technical staff members and volunteers
The value here is that a specific person handles activities of professional and stands behind it. That is earned, not computed.
importance 4 · CoreSource: “Direct activities of professional and technical staff members and volunteers.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 13 out of 100 (9–17 allowing for uncertainty): minimal exposure, high confidence.
Why it sits in this group: the value is that a specific person does it.
The rating behind it: Directing staff and volunteers day to day needs someone they answer to and will follow.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 1/4 · needs a body in a room 1/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 3/4 · how much data exists 2/4.
Providing direct service and supporting to individuals or clients
The rules require a named, qualified person to answer for direct service, and that person cannot be a piece of software.
importance 4 · CoreSource: “Provide direct service and support to individuals or clients, such as handling a referral for child advocacy issues, conducting a needs evaluation, or resolving complaints.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 15 out of 100 (8–22 allowing for uncertainty): minimal exposure, medium confidence.
Why it sits in this group: someone qualified has to answer for it; the value is that a specific person does it.
The rating behind it: Helping a client through a referral or a complaint depends on trust, and often needs a qualified worker.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 2/4 · needs a body in a room 1/4 · needs an accountable person 2/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 3/4 · how much data exists 2/4.
Establishing and maintaining relationships with other agencies and organizations in community to meet community needs and to ensure that services are not
The value here is that a specific person handles relationships and stands behind it. That is earned, not computed.
importance 4 · CoreSource: “Establish and maintain relationships with other agencies and organizations in community to meet community needs and to ensure that services are not duplicated.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 18 out of 100 (14–22 allowing for uncertainty): minimal exposure, high confidence.
Why it sits in this group: the value is that a specific person does it.
The rating behind it: Working relationships between agencies are built between people over time, not produced as a document.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 1/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 3/4 · how much data exists 2/4.
Show the other 6 tasks
Analyzing proposed legislation, regulations or rule changes to determine how agency services
shifting to AIThis is reading one thing and writing another: proposed legislation, regulations or rule changes in, a record out. That is the shape today's tools are built for.
importance 4 · SupplementalSource: “Analyze proposed legislation, regulations, or rule changes to determine how agency services could be impacted.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 83 out of 100 (79–87 allowing for uncertainty): very high exposure, high confidence.
Why it sits in this group: reading one thing and writing another; the same decision, made over and over; mistakes that are cheap to catch.
The rating behind it: Proposed laws and rule changes are public documents, and working out the knock-on effects is close reading.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 3/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 0/4 · how much data exists 4/4.
Planning and administering budgets
shifting to AIThis is reading one thing and writing another: budgets in, a record out. That is the shape today's tools are built for.
importance 4 · SupplementalSource: “Plan and administer budgets for programs, equipment, and support services.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 75 out of 100 (71–79 allowing for uncertainty): high exposure, high confidence.
Why it sits in this group: reading one thing and writing another; the same decision, made over and over; mistakes that are cheap to catch.
The rating behind it: Program budgets are built and tracked from figures already held in finance systems.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 3/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 0/4 · how much data exists 3/4.
Directing fundraising activities and the preparation of public relations materials
changing shapeThe software now makes the first pass at activities, but the deciding part still needs a person. So the job becomes checking and deciding rather than producing.
importance 3 · SupplementalSource: “Direct fundraising activities and the preparation of public relations materials.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 49 out of 100 (42–56 allowing for uncertainty): partial exposure, medium confidence.
Why it sits in this group: the same decision, made over and over; mistakes that are cheap to catch.
The rating behind it: Public relations material drafts quickly, though fundraising depends on relationships and someone driving the effort.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 2/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 1/4 · how much data exists 3/4.
Implementing and evaluating staff, volunteer or community training programs
changing shapeThe software now makes the first pass at staff, volunteer or community training programs, but the deciding part still needs a person. So the job becomes checking and deciding rather than producing.
importance 4 · CoreSource: “Implement and evaluate staff, volunteer, or community training programs.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 49 out of 100 (42–56 allowing for uncertainty): partial exposure, medium confidence.
Why it sits in this group: the same decision, made over and over; mistakes that are cheap to catch.
The rating behind it: Training material drafts easily, but delivering it and judging whether it worked involves being with people.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 2/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 1/4 · how much data exists 3/4.
Speaking to community groups to explain and interpreting agency purposes
staying humanThe value here is that a specific person handles community groups and stands behind it. That is earned, not computed.
importance 3 · CoreSource: “Speak to community groups to explain and interpret agency purposes, programs, and policies.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 30 out of 100 (23–37 allowing for uncertainty): low exposure, medium confidence.
Why it sits in this group: the same decision, made over and over; the value is that a specific person does it.
The rating behind it: The talk can be written for you, but standing in front of a community group and answering them cannot.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 2/4 · needs a body in a room 1/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 2/4 · how much data exists 3/4.
Representing organizations in relations with governmental and media institutions
staying humanThe value here is that a specific person handles organizations and stands behind it. That is earned, not computed.
importance 3 · SupplementalSource: “Represent organizations in relations with governmental and media institutions.” (O*NET task statement)
How this row was scored
Exposure score: 18 out of 100 (14–22 allowing for uncertainty): minimal exposure, high confidence.
Why it sits in this group: the value is that a specific person does it.
The rating behind it: Representing an organization to government and media rests on a named person others know and trust.
The five ratings: output a model can produce 1/4 · needs a body in a room 0/4 · needs an accountable person 0/4 · needs to be trusted in the moment 3/4 · how much data exists 2/4.
What this job pays, and how many people do it
- Median pay
- $80,390a year, the middle of the range, so half earn more and half earn less.bls-oews, 2025 · May 2025 estimates (national_M2025_dl.xlsx)
How we know this
Source: bls-oews
Reference period: May 2025 estimates (national_M2025_dl.xlsx)
Rounding: Shown as published.
- People doing this job
- 209,330in the US, 2025.bls-oews · May 2025 estimates (national_M2025_dl.xlsx)
What is deliberately not here: a forecast of how many of these jobs exist in ten years. Where an official projection exists for a market we publish it with its vintage; where it does not, we leave the space empty rather than borrow the other country’s number.
Why this is shifting
The reason is boringly specific. Most of what is shifting here is reading one thing and writing another: administrative procedures in, a record out. The rows above are exactly that shape: preparing and maintaining records and reports and establishing and overseeing administrative procedures to meet objectives set by boards of directors or senior management. What it cannot do is be trusted in person, which is what activities of professional run on: someone specific doing it and standing behind it. Which is why this page talks about your tasks changing, not your job ending.
Your move
Over a pint: what I’d tell you if you were my friend
Your week is splitting in two, and which half fills it is the whole question. Preparing and maintaining records and reports is going; directing activities of professional and technical staff members and volunteers is not.
So, given all that: 37% of this job's task weight sits in rows the software is already learning, 31% in rows that change shape rather than disappear, and 33% in rows it is nowhere near. That is the position, measured across 16 scored tasks. It is not a forecast about you.
The occupation is an average and you are not, so the first job below is finding out where your own week actually sits.
This week: one thing
Print the task ledger above and put your own hours next to each row. Roughly, in pen, in one sitting. Then look at which group your hours actually pile up in. Twenty minutes, this week.
- What you end up holding
- your own week, on one page, sorted into what is shifting and what is not
- How long it takes
- about twenty minutes
If printing it isn’t practical: Read the rows off this page and write the same list on the back of an envelope. Same twenty minutes, same page, and it works just as well said out loud to someone who knows the job. The point is your hours next to the rows, not the paper it is on.
Over the next 90 days
Volunteer toward the durable end, visibly. Over the next ninety days put your hand up for the work in the bottom group (directing activities of professional and technical staff members and volunteers) and let people see you doing it. Not a new project: the same job, with your mix deliberately tilted. The point is that when the rota or the reorganisation comes, the version of you people picture is the one doing the part that stays.
Over the next 12 months
Claim a specialism at the durable end and let the other end go. Over a year, deliberately become the person who handles directing activities of professional and technical staff members and volunteers, and deliberately stop being the first choice for the rows in the top group. That trade costs something, because the exposed work is often the comfortable work. Decide it on purpose rather than by drift. Before you pay for anything, use CareerOneStop - Find local training. It is free, it is the Labor Department's own service, and it is listed below with the rest of the free routes.
The roads out of here, and why I am not sending you down them
I looked at the obvious moves out of this job, and here is what I found.
I checked the 12 nearest US occupations to social and community service managers (nearest by the work that AI is not taking, not by job title), and none of them survived. The closest was health education specialists: only about 8% of its durable work is work you already do and it pays 20.3% less. Your own job splits about 37/63: that share of the list sits in the top exposure band and the rest does not. On this evidence the honest move is inside the job rather than out of it. Become the person who owns “evaluate the work of staff and volunteers to ensure that programs are…”, and let the exposed end go.
How that was checked: this job was compared against all 830 US occupations in this release on their official task statements, and the 12 nearest were examined one by one. A move that turns on an industry, an employer or a qualification rather than on the work itself will not show up in a check like that. And this release carries no licence register, so anything you are weighing needs that looked up separately.
3 moves I checked and rejected
These are the obvious-looking jumps. They are here with their reasons rather than quietly dropped, because the ones that fail are worth knowing about. It is one less thing to turn over at night.
Health Education Specialists
Why it looked obvious: It came up as a near neighbour on the work AI is not taking: you already establish and maintain relationships with other agencies and organizations in community to meet…, and their equivalent is to develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with agencies and organizations interested in public…. Across both published task lists that is about 8% of the durable work in that job.
Why I am not recommending it: Almost none of it is work you already do: about 8% of the durable side of that job. That is a different job, not a next step. It is a pay cut, in those words: $64,070 against your $80,390, 20.3% less (OEWS May 2025 (both)). Retraining to earn less is a decision, not advice.
Rehabilitation Counselors
Why it looked obvious: It came up as a near neighbour on the work AI is not taking: you already establish and maintain relationships with other agencies and organizations in community to meet…, and their equivalent is to develop and maintain relationships with community referral sources. Across both published task lists that is about 6% of the durable work in that job.
Why I am not recommending it: Almost none of it is work you already do: about 6% of the durable side of that job. That is a different job, not a next step. It is a pay cut, in those words: $46,850 against your $80,390, 41.7% less (OEWS May 2025 (both)). Retraining to earn less is a decision, not advice.
Education Administrators, Postsecondary
Why it looked obvious: It came up as a near neighbour on the work AI is not taking: you already represent organizations in relations with governmental and media institutions, and their equivalent is to represent institutions at community and campus events, in meetings with other institution personnel…. Across both published task lists that is about 6% of the durable work in that job.
Why I am not recommending it: Almost none of it is work you already do: about 6% of the durable side of that job. That is a different job, not a next step.
What I’d stop worrying about
A friend tells you what not to spend fear on. This is that list.
The headline number you read somewhere
The big “X% of jobs” figures are about the whole economy, not about you. The number that describes your job is on this page: 37% of its task weight, across 16 scored tasks. Every row behind it is printed above with the source. Check ours; ignore theirs.
The whole-job doom story
Nothing on this page says this job ends. It says the mix inside it moves. Half the rows above are unchanged or changing shape, and the plan is about which half your week sits in. That is a very different problem, and a solvable one.
Panic-buying a course
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The “obvious” next job everyone suggests
I checked the obvious moves and most of them did not survive. The reasons are printed with the routes above, including the pay and the gate. A move that fails on the numbers is worth knowing about so you can stop turning it over at night.
If you run a team doing this job
If you run a team doing this job, the conversation you owe them is the one on this page, and sooner than feels comfortable. Show them the ledger rather than a reassurance: the rows moving toward the software are preparing and maintaining records and reports, and the rows that are not are where you want your people visible. Ask each of them to do the this-week move and bring the list to your next one-to-one. It turns a rumour into a piece of work, and it tells you which parts of your team's week are actually at stake. And say the thing out loud that a team lead usually leaves unsaid: a shrinking team is your exposure too, so do the move yourself as well.
You are reading the United States figures
The United Kingdom splits this work across more than one official group, of which Social services managers and directors is the closest. The pay and employment figures are not directly comparable, and we do not average them together.
Switch to the United Kingdom page →partial match
In UK official statistics this job is counted as Social services managers and directors. Pay and employment stay on this page’s own group; the task list and the scores do not cross over.
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Questions people ask about this job
- Will AI replace Social and Community Service Managers?
- Not as a job, but it is already doing parts of the work. Across the 16 official task statements scored for Social and Community Service Managers (United States, SOC 11-9151), 37% of the importance-weighted core work is made of tasks today's AI could already do most of. The overall exposure score is 49 out of 100 (range 43–54, band: partial). That is a statement about tasks, not about headcount: this measures what AI could do, not whether any employer adopts it, whether the law allows it, or whether doing the routine parts faster creates more demand for the human parts. Figures are from release 2026-q4.1.
- Which tasks in “Social and Community Service Managers” can AI already do?
- The highest-scoring tasks in release 2026-q4.1 are: “Prepare and maintain records and reports, such as budgets, personnel records, or training manuals” (93/100, very high); “Analyze proposed legislation, regulations, or rule changes to determine how agency services could be impacted” (83/100, very high); “Research and analyze member or community needs to determine program directions and goals” (75/100, high). Each score comes from five published 0–4 ratings turned into a number by a published formula, and each carries the model's one-sentence reason on the page.
- Which tasks in “Social and Community Service Managers” stay human?
- About 33% of this job's task weight sits in work that scores low for AI exposure. The lowest-scoring tasks in release 2026-q4.1 are: “Direct activities of professional and technical staff members and volunteers” (13/100, minimal); “Provide direct service and support to individuals or clients, such as handling a referral for child advocacy issues, conducting a needs evaluation, or resolv…” (15/100, minimal); “Represent organizations in relations with governmental and media institutions” (18/100, minimal). Low scores usually mean the task needs a body in a room, a legally accountable human, or trust built in real time. Those are the three things the scoring rubric treats as gates rather than obstacles.
- What should someone working in “Social and Community Service Managers” do about AI?
- Start from the ledger rather than the headline: 37% of this job's weighted core work is exposed, and roughly 33% is not. The practical move is to spend more of your week on the tasks that score low, the ones above, and to get fluent at directing AI through the tasks that score high, because those are the parts that change whether or not you are ready for them. This page does not predict your job, and nothing here is career advice tailored to you: the score describes the occupation, not the person.
- How is the AI exposure score for Social and Community Service Managers calculated?
- Each official task statement for the occupation is rated on five published 0–4 dimensions (output replicability, physical embodiment, licensed accountability, real-time human trust, and data availability) by claude-opus-5 using scoring prompt task_scoring_v1.0. The model never writes the score; a published formula turns the five ratings into a 0–100 number, so every score can be recomputed by hand. The occupation figure is the importance-weighted mean across 16 scored tasks. The prompt, the rubric, the formula and the full dataset are published at https://futureproof.collab365.com/method and https://futureproof.collab365.com/data/2026-q4.1 under CC BY 4.0.
Where these numbers come from
Worth knowing about these figures
- The match between this job and its counterpart in the other country is partial, so the two pages count slightly different groups of people.
- 1 of this occupation's scored task statements carry a score that was measured under a different occupation's context, because the statement is shared between jobs and has only been scored once so far. Each one names the occupation it was measured under in the free routes below; none is presented as a measurement for this job.
- Task clusters are not derived in this release, so the task-cluster field is empty and no Collab365 Space routing is attached to this occupation yet.
- Task statements
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- Task weights
- onet-db (im-rt)
- Scores
- Rubric task_scoring_v1.0, model claude-opus-5, computed 2026-08-04.
- Pay and employment
- bls-oews (May 2025 estimates (national_M2025_dl.xlsx))bls-oews (May 2025 estimates (national_M2025_dl.xlsx))
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Collab365 (2026). Collab365 Futureproof: task-level AI exposure for US and UK occupations, release 2026-q4.1 (methodVersion 2.0.0, promptVersion task_scoring_v1.0). https://futureproof.collab365.com/data/2026-q4.1. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Built with O*NET data (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); ONS data (Open Government Licence v3.0); GAISI task framework (arXiv:2507.22748, MIT); BLS data (public domain).
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@misc{collab365futureproof2026q41,
title = {Collab365 Futureproof: task-level AI exposure for US and UK occupations, release 2026-q4.1},
author = {{Collab365}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://futureproof.collab365.com/data/2026-q4.1},
note = {Release 2026-q4.1, methodVersion 2.0.0, promptVersion task_scoring_v1.0, CC BY 4.0}
}Data as of release 2026-q4.1, published . Releases never change after publication; when the figures move, a new dated release is published beside this one and this one stays exactly where it is.