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 take election returns or survey data from spreadsheets or files, clean the records, and draft a results brief that highlights trends across places or time periods.
Use an agent to monitor government releases, legislative trackers, and journal articles, then draft short alerts when a policy or public issue changes.
Use an agent to gather program data, compare results with the stated policy goals, and draft an evaluation memo with possible recommendations.
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O*NET-SOC 19-3094.00 · #164 of 923
Result context
Study the origin, development, and operation of political systems. May study topics, such as public opinion, political decisionmaking, and ideology. May analyze the structure and operation of governments, as well as various political entities. May conduct public opinion surveys, analyze election results, or analyze public documents.
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 take election returns or survey data from spreadsheets or files, clean the records, and draft a results brief that highlights trends across places or time periods. It can also note missing values, weighting issues, and the methods used so you have a solid draft to revise.
Where you stay involved
You decide what the numbers mean, choose the final framing, and approve any conclusions before the results go out.
How you could use an agent
Use an agent to monitor government releases, legislative trackers, and journal articles, then draft short alerts when a policy or public issue changes. It can compare the new material with earlier notes, pull out what is new, and organize the source details for your review.
Where you stay involved
You decide whether the change matters, what it means for your work, and whether the alert should go out or be revised.
How you could use an agent
Use an agent to gather program data, compare results with the stated policy goals, and draft an evaluation memo with possible recommendations. It can lay out the evidence, note likely confounding factors, and prepare a clean summary for your review or presentation.
Where you stay involved
You decide which recommendation makes sense, check the reasoning, and approve anything that will be shared with a client, institution, or audience.
Supporting analysis
Underlying methodology score
73 / 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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