How likely is AI to replace File Clerks?

Published research puts File Clerks at 49 out of 100 for AI displacement risk, in the transitioning band. The number is a weighted consensus of 7 research sources and describes the typical version of the role, not any individual.

Do researchers agree on the risk for File Clerks?

Only partly. Individual estimates for File Clerks run from 32 to 69 out of 100 across the 7 sources behind this score, so the single number smooths over real disagreement. More recent and higher confidence studies carry more weight in it.

Which administration roles face similar AI exposure?

The closest published administration roles to File Clerks by score are First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers (50/100), Freight Forwarders (50/100), and Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks (50/100). Each has its own page with the research behind its number.

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Will AI replace File Clerks?

Transitioning

Baseline AI displacement risk for File Clerks, aggregated from 7 research sources.

What this score means

File Clerks sits in the middle of the exposure range for Administration. 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 49 out of 100 it scores 3 points below the Administration average of 52. Across the 7 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 32 to 69, 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 File Clerks, most central first, showing 12 of 19.

01Perform general office activities, such as typing, answering telephones, operating office machines, processing mail, or securing confidential materials.
02Keep records of materials filed or removed, using logbooks or computers and generate computerized reports.
03Gather materials to be filed from departments or employees.
04Find, retrieve, and make copies of information from files in response to requests and deliver information to authorized users.
05Add new material to file records or create new records as necessary.
06Sort or classify information according to guidelines, such as content, purpose, user criteria, or chronological, alphabetical, or numerical order.
07Scan or read incoming materials to determine how and where they should be classified or filed.
08Eliminate outdated or unnecessary materials, destroying them or transferring them to inactive storage, according to file maintenance guidelines or legal requirements.
09Answer questions about records or files.
10Assign and record or stamp identification numbers or codes to index materials for filing.
11Place materials into storage receptacles, such as file cabinets, boxes, bins, or drawers, according to classification and identification information.
12Modify or improve filing systems or implement new filing systems.

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 7 research sources that scored File Clerks for AI and automation exposure. More recent, higher confidence studies carry more weight in the final number.

01Anthropic Economic Index 2026 - AI Task Exposure · 2026Anthropic
02Global Automation Atlas: Task Substitution Exposure by Occupation · 2026Garg, Crosta, Baier (2026), arXiv:2605.17086
03Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure · 2025International Labour Organization, Working Paper 140 (2025)
04Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations · 2025Tomlinson, Jaffe et al., Microsoft Research (2025)
05A new future of work: The race to deploy AI and raise skills in Europe and beyond · 2024McKinsey Global Institute (2024)
06GPTs are GPTs: Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs · 2024Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin, Rock (Science, 2024)
07AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023Felten, Raj, Seamans (2023)

Common questions

How likely is AI to replace File Clerks?: Published research puts File Clerks at 49 out of 100 for AI displacement risk, in the transitioning band. The number is a weighted consensus of 7 research sources and describes the typical version of the role, not any individual.
Do researchers agree on the risk for File Clerks?: Only partly. Individual estimates for File Clerks run from 32 to 69 out of 100 across the 7 sources behind this score, so the single number smooths over real disagreement. More recent and higher confidence studies carry more weight in it.
Which administration roles face similar AI exposure?: The closest published administration roles to File Clerks by score are First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers (50/100), Freight Forwarders (50/100), and Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks (50/100). Each has its own page with the research behind its number.

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