Occupational Therapy Assistants
HealthcareAI exposure
- Data source: BLSPublished: 2026-08
Moderate· 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
0.000
0.000Range of values carried here0.745Scale, basis and source
- Data source: ILOPublished: 2025
0.30
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, 67% 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 % |
|---|---|---|
Teach patients how to deal constructively with their emotions.31-2011 | 0.0383100.0 | 0.0093100.0 |
| Not observed on any surface — 21 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. | ||
Observe and record patients' progress, attitudes, and behavior and maintain this information in client records. | —0 | —0 |
Maintain and promote a positive attitude toward clients and their treatment programs. | —0 | —0 |
Monitor patients' performance in therapy activities, providing encouragement. | —0 | —0 |
Select therapy activities to fit patients' needs and capabilities. | —0 | —0 |
Instruct, or assist in instructing, patients and families in home programs, basic living skills, or the care and use of adaptive equipment. | —0 | —0 |
Evaluate the daily living skills or capacities of physically, developmentally, or emotionally disabled clients. | —0 | —0 |
Aid patients in dressing and grooming themselves. | —0 | —0 |
Implement, or assist occupational therapists with implementing, treatment plans designed to help clients function independently. | —0 | —0 |
Report to supervisors, verbally or in writing, on patients' progress, attitudes, and behavior. | —0 | —0 |
Alter treatment programs to obtain better results if treatment is not having the intended effect. | —0 | —0 |
Work under the direction of occupational therapists to plan, implement, or administer educational, vocational, or recreational programs that restore or enhance performance in individuals with functional impairments. | —0 | —0 |
Design, fabricate, or repair assistive devices or make adaptive changes to equipment or environments. | —0 | —0 |
Assemble, clean, or maintain equipment or materials for patient use. | —0 | —0 |
Perform clerical duties, such as scheduling appointments, collecting data, or documenting health insurance billings. | —0 | —0 |
Transport patients to and from the occupational therapy work area. | —0 | —0 |
Demonstrate therapy techniques, such as manual or creative arts or games. | —0 | —0 |
Order any needed educational or treatment supplies. | —0 | —0 |
Communicate and collaborate with other healthcare professionals involved with the care of a patient. | —0 | —0 |
Attend continuing education classes. | —0 | —0 |
Attend care plan meetings to review patient progress and update care plans. | —0 | —0 |
Assist educational specialists or clinical psychologists in administering situational or diagnostic tests to measure client's abilities or progress. | —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 |
|---|---|
Observe and record patients' progress, attitudes, and behavior and maintain this information in client records.O*NET Task ID 4254 | 1.0 |
Report to supervisors, verbally or in writing, on patients' progress, attitudes, and behavior.O*NET Task ID 4262 | 1.0 |
Perform clerical duties, such as scheduling appointments, collecting data, or documenting health insurance billings.O*NET Task ID 4268 | 1.0 |
Attend continuing education classes.O*NET Task ID 18700 | 1.0 |
Select therapy activities to fit patients' needs and capabilities.O*NET Task ID 4257 | 0.5 |
Order any needed educational or treatment supplies.O*NET Task ID 4271 | 0.5 |
Assist educational specialists or clinical psychologists in administering situational or diagnostic tests to measure client's abilities or progress.O*NET Task ID 4272 | 0.5 |
Attend care plan meetings to review patient progress and update care plans.O*NET Task ID 18701 | 0.5 |
Maintain and promote a positive attitude toward clients and their treatment programs.O*NET Task ID 4255 | 0.0 |
Monitor patients' performance in therapy activities, providing encouragement.O*NET Task ID 4256 | 0.0 |
Instruct, or assist in instructing, patients and families in home programs, basic living skills, or the care and use of adaptive equipment.O*NET Task ID 4258 | 0.0 |
Evaluate the daily living skills or capacities of physically, developmentally, or emotionally disabled clients.O*NET Task ID 4259 | 0.0 |
Aid patients in dressing and grooming themselves.O*NET Task ID 4260 | 0.0 |
Implement, or assist occupational therapists with implementing, treatment plans designed to help clients function independently.O*NET Task ID 4261 | 0.0 |
Alter treatment programs to obtain better results if treatment is not having the intended effect.O*NET Task ID 4263 | 0.0 |
Work under the direction of occupational therapists to plan, implement, or administer educational, vocational, or recreational programs that restore or enhance performance in individuals with functional impairments.O*NET Task ID 4264 | 0.0 |
Design, fabricate, or repair assistive devices or make adaptive changes to equipment or environments.O*NET Task ID 4265 | 0.0 |
Assemble, clean, or maintain equipment or materials for patient use.O*NET Task ID 4266 | 0.0 |
Teach patients how to deal constructively with their emotions.O*NET Task ID 4267 | 0.0 |
Transport patients to and from the occupational therapy work area.O*NET Task ID 4269 | 0.0 |
Demonstrate therapy techniques, such as manual or creative arts or games.O*NET Task ID 4270 | 0.0 |
Communicate and collaborate with other healthcare professionals involved with the care of a patient.O*NET Task ID 18699 | 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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