AI Delegation Index
What work could you hand off to an AI agent?
AI agents could support several recurring tasks in this job, while people continue to lead decisions and handle exceptions.
Where agents can help most
Use an agent to gather project reports, milestone notes, and test results from each phase, then assemble them into a status summary with a draft next-step memo.
Use an agent to pull together project data, compare results with the plan, and draft follow-up notes for the technical team when something looks off.
Use an agent to gather the project goals, draft the proposal text, collect budget notes, and assemble the supporting attachments into one funding packet.
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O*NET-SOC 11-9121.00 · #246 of 923
Result context
Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, statistics, and research and development in these fields.
The overall rating combines how useful the best agent workflows are with how much of the occupation they address. It is not an estimate of job automation or replacement.
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How you could use an agent
Use an agent to gather project reports, milestone notes, and test results from each phase, then assemble them into a status summary with a draft next-step memo. It can help you spot delays, missing deliverables, or unclear results before you decide whether the work should move forward.
Where you stay involved
You review the science, decide the next phase, and settle any resource or priority conflict.
How you could use an agent
Use an agent to pull together project data, compare results with the plan, and draft follow-up notes for the technical team when something looks off. It can help you organize the evidence, list the questions that remain, and prepare a clean summary for the next review meeting.
Where you stay involved
You decide what the results mean, direct more testing if needed, and judge whether the project should continue as planned.
How you could use an agent
Use an agent to gather the project goals, draft the proposal text, collect budget notes, and assemble the supporting attachments into one funding packet. It can also check that the sections line up with the same scope and timeline before you send it out for internal review.
Where you stay involved
You decide the scientific plan, approve the budget, and handle any sponsor requirement that needs management approval.
Documentation and coordination support
These support steps are shown separately. They do not count as agentic workflows and do not increase this occupation's score.
Use an agent to draft or update standard operating notes from your source documents, then turn them into a clean training handout or procedure memo for the technical team. It can track who has read the update and collect acknowledgement records from your files or email.
Supporting analysis
Underlying methodology score
70 / 100
This technical score determines the qualitative rating; it is not an estimate of the share of the occupation that can be automated.
O*NET 31.0 · methodology 3.3.0. Every workflow passes an action-level physical-execution and protected human-and-veterinary clinical-action gate. Documentation workflows must own a complete digital loop and use digital task evidence only; support-only workflows are disclosed separately and excluded from scoring. Artistic, editorial, normative, and policy-dependent work receives a transparent human-judgment constraint. National ranking within 923 scored O*NET occupations under methodology 3.3.0.
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