Editors
Arts, Design, Entertainment & MediaAI exposure
- Data source: BLSPublished: '26.08
Very high· relative
LowFour relative bandsVery highGroup-level value
Scale, basis and source
Four relative bands (Low / Moderate / High / Very high)
831 detailed occupations in the BLS Employment Projections table. Assigned per National Employment Matrix (NEM) code, so occupations sharing a NEM code carry the same band
- Data source: AnthropicPublished: '26.03
0.246
0.000Range of values carried here0.745Scale, basis and source
- Data source: ILOPublished: '25
0.54
0.09Range of values carried here0.70Group-level value
Scale, basis and source
Generative AI exposure index, 0–1 as published
ISCO-08 unit group — every occupation sharing the code gets this value
Computed by this site, not published by the ILO: of the 1,012 occupations this site links to the ILO dataset, 13% score at or above this value.
What kind of figure this source publishes
The BLS category is a relative rank, not an absolute level, and it is not a first-hand measurement: it groups an occupation's percentile ranks across several published studies into four bands. It is not an employment or wage forecast, not a probability of adoption, and it does not separate automation from augmentation.
Task-level exposure
Show 14 hidden tasks| Task | Claude.aiRaw / share % | APIRaw / share % |
|---|---|---|
Write text, such as stories, articles, editorials, or newsletters.27-3041 | 0.780030.5 | 0.300013.6 |
Develop story or content ideas, considering reader or audience appeal.27-3041 | 0.750029.3 | 0.360016.3 |
Prepare, rewrite and edit copy to improve readability, or supervise others who do this work.27-3041 | 0.610023.8 | 0.910041.2 |
Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.27-3041 | 0.23009.0 | 0.08003.6 |
Read, evaluate and edit manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication, and confer with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication.27-3041 | 0.11004.3 | 0.01000.5 |
Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.27-3041 | 0.08003.1 | 0.540024.4 |
Select local, state, national, and international news items received from wire services, based on assessment of items' significance and interest value.27-3041 | 0.00000.0 | 0.01000.5 |
Values in this tab are predicted labels, not observations. Eloundou et al. (2023) published two rating regimes — human raters and GPT-4 — and the β shown here is derived from the GPT-4 rater basis alone; the same task can take a different value under the other regime. The unit and the meaning differ from the observed shares (%) in the other tabs, so do not place them on the same axis.
| Task | βE1 + 0.5 × E2 |
|---|---|
Prepare, rewrite and edit copy to improve readability, or supervise others who do this work.O*NET Task ID 1776 | 1.0 |
Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.O*NET Task ID 1777 | 1.0 |
Develop story or content ideas, considering reader or audience appeal.O*NET Task ID 1782 | 1.0 |
Read, evaluate and edit manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication, and confer with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication.O*NET Task ID 1786 | 1.0 |
Make manuscript acceptance or revision recommendations to the publisher.O*NET Task ID 1790 | 1.0 |
Read material to determine index items and arrange them alphabetically or topically, indicating page or chapter location.O*NET Task ID 1795 | 1.0 |
Write text, such as stories, articles, editorials, or newsletters.O*NET Task ID 21000 | 1.0 |
Allocate print space for story text, photos, and illustrations according to space parameters and copy significance, using knowledge of layout principles.O*NET Task ID 1778 | 0.5 |
Plan the contents of publications according to the publication's style, editorial policy, and publishing requirements.O*NET Task ID 1779 | 0.5 |
Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.O*NET Task ID 1780 | 0.5 |
β = E1 + 0.5 × E2 · E1 = tasks where direct LLM access alone cuts time by at least 50%, E2 = tasks where software built on top of an LLM cuts time by at least 50%. Values take only 0 / 0.5 / 1.0.
Data sources & licenses — O*NET®, Anthropic Economic Index, Eloundou et al. (2023): see full notices on the Credits page
Occupation information
Recent Changes Affecting This Occupation
Mar 2026: Brookings research shows copyediting and proofreading freelancers face significant AI displacement — high-skilled editors hit harder than junior ones, reversing historical technology disruption patterns.
[Source: Brookings Institution (Hui & Reshef, 2025)]Mar 2026: Corporate expense data shows 97% cost saving when firms switch from human contractors to AI, reducing demand for contract editing work.
[Source: Stevens (2026) arXiv]Mar 2026: Published evergreen blog post analyzing AI impact on editors: 65% exposure, 52% automation risk.
[Source: AI Changing Work Blog]