Industrial Designers
Arts, Design, Entertainment & MediaAI exposure
- Data source: BLSPublished: 2026-08
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
0.044
0.000Range of values carried here0.745Scale, basis and source
- Data source: ILOPublished: 2025
0.35
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, 61% 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
Exposed tasks only| Task | Claude.aiRaw / share % | APIRaw / share % |
|---|---|---|
Modify and refine designs, using working models, to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends.27-1021 | 0.100058.8 | 0.050014.3 |
Evaluate feasibility of design ideas, based on factors such as appearance, safety, function, serviceability, budget, production costs/methods, and market characteristics.27-1021 | 0.040023.5 | 0.300085.7 |
Research production specifications, costs, production materials, and manufacturing methods and provide cost estimates and itemized production requirements.27-1021 | 0.020011.8 | 0.00000.0 |
Advise corporations on issues involving corporate image projects or problems.27-1021 | 0.01005.9 | 0.00000.0 |
Participate in new product planning or market research, including studying the potential need for new products.27-1021 | 0.00000.0 | 0.00000.0 |
Prepare sketches of ideas, detailed drawings, illustrations, artwork, or blueprints, using drafting instruments, paints and brushes, or computer-aided design equipment.27-1021 | 0.00000.0 | —0 |
Coordinate the look and function of product lines.27-1021 | 0.00000.0 | —0 |
Present designs and reports to customers or design committees for approval and discuss need for modification.27-1021 | 0.00000.0 | —0 |
| Not observed on any surface — 9 task(s) — These tasks have no row in the source for this release. The 0 in the share row is a display-stage composition ratio; absence is what the — in the raw row states. | ||
Direct and coordinate the fabrication of models or samples and the drafting of working drawings and specification sheets from sketches. | —0 | —0 |
Confer with engineering, marketing, production, or sales departments, or with customers, to establish and evaluate design concepts for manufactured products. | —0 | —0 |
Read publications, attend showings, and study competing products and design styles and motifs to obtain perspective and generate design concepts. | —0 | —0 |
Develop manufacturing procedures and monitor the manufacture of their designs in a factory to improve operations and product quality. | —0 | —0 |
Fabricate models or samples in paper, wood, glass, fabric, plastic, metal, or other materials, using hand or power tools. | —0 | —0 |
Investigate product characteristics such as the product's safety and handling qualities, its market appeal, how efficiently it can be produced, and ways of distributing, using, and maintaining it. | —0 | —0 |
Design graphic material for use as ornamentation, illustration, or advertising on manufactured materials and packaging or containers. | —0 | —0 |
Supervise assistants' work throughout the design process. | —0 | —0 |
Develop industrial standards and regulatory guidelines. | —0 | —0 |
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 sketches of ideas, detailed drawings, illustrations, artwork, or blueprints, using drafting instruments, paints and brushes, or computer-aided design equipment.O*NET Task ID 6896 | 0.5 |
Direct and coordinate the fabrication of models or samples and the drafting of working drawings and specification sheets from sketches.O*NET Task ID 6897 | 0.5 |
Modify and refine designs, using working models, to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends.O*NET Task ID 6898 | 0.5 |
Coordinate the look and function of product lines.O*NET Task ID 6899 | 0.5 |
Confer with engineering, marketing, production, or sales departments, or with customers, to establish and evaluate design concepts for manufactured products.O*NET Task ID 6900 | 0.5 |
Present designs and reports to customers or design committees for approval and discuss need for modification.O*NET Task ID 6901 | 0.5 |
Evaluate feasibility of design ideas, based on factors such as appearance, safety, function, serviceability, budget, production costs/methods, and market characteristics.O*NET Task ID 6902 | 0.5 |
Read publications, attend showings, and study competing products and design styles and motifs to obtain perspective and generate design concepts.O*NET Task ID 6903 | 0.5 |
Research production specifications, costs, production materials, and manufacturing methods and provide cost estimates and itemized production requirements.O*NET Task ID 6904 | 0.5 |
Design graphic material for use as ornamentation, illustration, or advertising on manufactured materials and packaging or containers.O*NET Task ID 6905 | 0.5 |
Fabricate models or samples in paper, wood, glass, fabric, plastic, metal, or other materials, using hand or power tools.O*NET Task ID 6908 | 0.0 |
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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