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Chiropractors

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 grow over the next decade, with about 144 openings expected each year.

Step 1

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

More exposedband 4 of 5
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Looking at the job itself, AI could help with about a third 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.

Step 2

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 73% of the tasks in this job.

Tasks AI can help with or automate

  1. Diagnose health problems by reviewing patients' health and medical histories, questioning, observing, and examining patients and interpreting x-rays.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  2. Obtain and record patients' medical histories.

    AI could do much of this on its own

  3. Maintain accurate case histories of patients.

    AI could do much of this on its own

  4. Advise patients about recommended courses of treatment.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  5. Analyze x-rays to locate the sources of patients' difficulties and to rule out fractures or diseases as sources of problems.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

Tasks AI can't do much of

  1. Evaluate the functioning of the neuromuscularskeletal system and the spine using systems of chiropractic diagnosis.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  2. Perform a series of manual adjustments to the spine or other articulations of the body to correct the musculoskeletal system.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  3. Suggest and apply the use of supports such as straps, tapes, bandages, or braces if necessary.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

Step 3

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