Anthropologists and Archeologists
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 30 openings expected each year.
Where your job stands
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second 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 about half of this job's tasks.
What this means
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second 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 83% of the tasks in this job.
Tasks AI can help with or automate
Collect information and make judgments through observation, interviews, and review of documents.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Teach or mentor undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology or archeology.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Write about and present research findings for a variety of specialized and general audiences.
AI could do much of this on its own
Plan and direct research to characterize and compare the economic, demographic, health care, social, political, linguistic, and religious institutions of distinct cultural groups, communities, and organizations.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Record the exact locations and conditions of artifacts uncovered in diggings or surveys, using drawings and photographs as necessary.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Tasks AI can't do much of
Lead field training sites and train field staff, students, and volunteers in excavation methods.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Collect artifacts made of stone, bone, metal, and other materials, placing them in bags and marking them to show where they were found.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Conduct participatory action research in communities and organizations to assess how work is done and to design work systems, technologies, and environments.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Clean, restore, and preserve artifacts.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Develop intervention procedures, using techniques such as individual and focus group interviews, consultations, and participant observation of social interaction.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
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