Atmospheric and Space Scientists
The short answer
This job is expected to meaningfully change. AI can already assist with or automate many of its tasks. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to hold steady over the next decade, with about 40 openings expected each year.
Where your job stands
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the most exposed fifth for how much AI could touch it. That doesn't mean the job goes away—it means more of its tasks are the kind AI can help with.
How much AI could touch this job
Looking at the job itself, AI could help with more than half of this job's tasks.
What this means
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the most exposed fifth, out of 656 jobs we could rank. Read more in the methodology.
What AI can and can’t help with in this job
The score comes from the real, day-to-day tasks of this job—not a guess about the job as a whole. Below are the tasks that matter most in this job, split by whether AI can help with them.
AI can help with or automate about 93% of the tasks in this job.
Tasks AI can help with or automate
Develop or use mathematical or computer models for weather forecasting.
AI could do much of this on its own
Interpret data, reports, maps, photographs, or charts to predict long- or short-range weather conditions, using computer models and knowledge of climate theory, physics, and mathematics.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Conduct meteorological research into the processes or determinants of atmospheric phenomena, weather, or climate.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Formulate predictions by interpreting environmental data, such as meteorological, atmospheric, oceanic, paleoclimate, climate, or related information.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Broadcast weather conditions, forecasts, or severe weather warnings to the public via television, radio, or the Internet or provide this information to the news media.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Tasks AI can't do much of
Collect air samples from planes or ships over land or sea to study atmospheric composition.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Measure wind, temperature, and humidity in the upper atmosphere, using weather balloons.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
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