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 organize research notes, keep track of sources, and draft sections of an article, chapter, or grant proposal from your outline.
Use an agent to revise a syllabus, handouts, and homework sequence after you upload course notes, past materials, and student feedback.
Use an agent to assemble quiz, test, or assignment items from your course materials, then help you sort and record results after grading.
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O*NET-SOC 25-1126.00 · #198 of 923
Result context
Teach courses in philosophy, religion, and theology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
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 organize research notes, keep track of sources, and draft sections of an article, chapter, or grant proposal from your outline. It can also prepare reference lists and supporting material so you spend more time shaping the argument and less time hunting through files.
Where you stay involved
You decide the thesis, check the sources, revise the writing, and handle any authorship or ethics questions yourself.
How you could use an agent
Use an agent to revise a syllabus, handouts, and homework sequence after you upload course notes, past materials, and student feedback. It can suggest updated readings and format the materials into a clean course packet that matches the term’s learning goals.
Where you stay involved
You decide what content belongs in the course, approve the final materials, and make any changes needed for department rules or accessibility.
How you could use an agent
Use an agent to assemble quiz, test, or assignment items from your course materials, then help you sort and record results after grading. It can flag mismatched names, missing work, or score entries that look inconsistent so your gradebook stays orderly.
Where you stay involved
You grade the work, decide how to handle doubtful cases or disputes, and update the official records yourself.
Supporting analysis
Underlying methodology score
72 / 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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