Will AI replace Economics Teachers, Postsecondary?

What this score means

Economics 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 20 to 59, 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 Economics Teachers, Postsecondary, most central first, showing 12 of 22.

• 01Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as econometrics, price theory, and macroeconomics.
• 02Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
• 03Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
• 04Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
• 05Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
• 06Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
• 07Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
• 08Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
• 09Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
• 10Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
• 11Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
• 12Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.

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 Economics 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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