Environmental Engineers
Life, Physical & Social SciencesAI exposure
- Data source: BLSPublished: 2026-08
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: 2026-03
0.036
0.000Range of values carried here0.745Scale, basis and source
- Data source: ILOPublished: 2025
0.38
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, 48% 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 41 hidden tasks| Task | Claude.aiRaw / share % |
|---|---|
Provide administrative support for projects by collecting data, providing project documentation, training staff, or performing other general administrative duties.17-2081 | 0.005313.4 |
Develop, implement, or manage plans or programs related to conservation or management of natural resources.17-2081 | 0.005012.6 |
Analyze and recommend chemical, biological, or other wastewater treatment methods to prepare water for industrial or domestic use.17-2081 | 0.004812.1 |
Design water storage tanks or other water storage facilities.17-2081 | 0.00399.8 |
Design water run-off collection networks, water supply channels, or water supply system networks.17-2081 | 0.00399.8 |
Design domestic or industrial water or wastewater treatment plants, including advanced facilities with sequencing batch reactors (SBR), membranes, lift stations, headworks, surge overflow basins, ultraviolet disinfection systems, aerobic digesters, sludge lagoons, or control buildings.17-2081 | 0.00245.9 |
Design or select equipment for use in wastewater processing to ensure compliance with government standards.17-2081 | 0.00225.4 |
Write reports or articles for Web sites or newsletters related to environmental engineering issues.17-2081 | 0.00225.4 |
Inspect industrial or municipal facilities or programs to evaluate operational effectiveness or ensure compliance with environmental regulations.17-2081 | 0.00204.9 |
Prepare, review, or update environmental investigation or recommendation reports.17-2081 | 0.00174.4 |
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 |
|---|---|
Provide administrative support for projects by collecting data, providing project documentation, training staff, or performing other general administrative duties.O*NET Task ID 1372 | 1.0 |
Prepare hazardous waste manifests or land disposal restriction notifications.O*NET Task ID 1383 | 1.0 |
Write reports or articles for Web sites or newsletters related to environmental engineering issues.O*NET Task ID 19626 | 1.0 |
Prepare, maintain, or revise quality assurance documentation or procedures.O*NET Task ID 20197 | 1.0 |
Prepare, review, or update environmental investigation or recommendation reports.O*NET Task ID 1366 | 0.5 |
Obtain, update, or maintain plans, permits, or standard operating procedures.O*NET Task ID 1368 | 0.5 |
Provide technical support for environmental remediation or litigation projects, including remediation system design or determination of regulatory applicability.O*NET Task ID 1369 | 0.5 |
Monitor progress of environmental improvement programs.O*NET Task ID 1370 | 0.5 |
Inspect industrial or municipal facilities or programs to evaluate operational effectiveness or ensure compliance with environmental regulations.O*NET Task ID 1371 | 0.5 |
Develop proposed project objectives and targets and report to management on progress in attaining them.O*NET Task ID 1373 | 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.
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