Will AI replace Business Continuity Planners?

What this score means

Business Continuity Planners sits in the middle of the exposure range for Business & Operations. Routine parts of the job are starting to automate, but much of it still depends on judgment, relationships, and context that today's models handle poorly. At 47 out of 100 it sits close to the Business & Operations average of 46. Across the 4 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 44 to 50, so the score is a weighted consensus rather than any single figure.

The number is a consensus estimate for the typical version of the role, built from published academic and industry research scored occupation by occupation. It is not a prediction about any individual. How scoring works

What this job actually involves

Exposure follows the work itself rather than the job title, so it is worth seeing what the role is made of. These are the tasks O*NET records for Business Continuity Planners, most central first, showing 12 of 21.

• 01Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
• 02Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
• 03Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.
• 04Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
• 05Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
• 06Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.
• 07Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
• 08Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
• 09Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
• 10Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.
• 11Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.
• 12Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.

Task statements from O*NET by the National Center for O*NET Development, used under CC BY 4.0. The tasks are descriptive; the exposure score above is ours.

The research behind this score

This baseline aggregates 4 research sources that scored Business Continuity Planners for AI and automation exposure. More recent, higher confidence studies carry more weight in the final number.

• 01Anthropic Economic Index 2026 - AI Task Exposure · 2026
• 02Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure · 2025
• 03GPTs are GPTs: Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs · 2024
• 04AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023

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