Will AI replace Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary?

What this score means

Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary leans toward the safer end for Education. Parts of the role touch tasks AI is getting good at, but the core still depends on hands-on work or judgment that resists automation. At 38 out of 100 it scores 3 points below the Education average of 41. Across the 4 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 31 to 45, 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 Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary, most central first, showing 12 of 20.

• 01Observe and evaluate students' work to determine progress, provide feedback, and make suggestions for improvement.
• 02Present lectures and conduct discussions to increase students' knowledge and competence using visual aids, such as graphs, charts, videotapes, and slides.
• 03Supervise and monitor students' use of tools and equipment.
• 04Administer oral, written, or performance tests to measure progress and to evaluate training effectiveness.
• 05Provide individualized instruction and tutorial or remedial instruction.
• 06Prepare reports and maintain records, such as student grades, attendance rolls, and training activity details.
• 07Develop curricula and plan course content and methods of instruction.
• 08Determine training needs of students or workers.
• 09Supervise independent or group projects, field placements, laboratory work, or other training.
• 10Integrate academic and vocational curricula so that students can obtain a variety of skills.
• 11Select and assemble books, materials, supplies, and equipment for training, courses, or projects.
• 12Conduct on-the-job training classes or training sessions to teach and demonstrate principles, techniques, procedures, or methods of designated subjects.

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 Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary 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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