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Will AI replace Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks?
Baseline AI displacement risk for Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks, aggregated from 7 research sources.
What this score means
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks is among the more exposed roles in Administration. A large share of the work, especially its routine and text heavy parts, is already within reach of current AI, though the harder judgment calls still need a person. At 60 out of 100 it scores 8 points above the Administration average of 52. Across the 7 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 50 to 79, 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 Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks, most central first, showing 12 of 25.
- 01Prepare insurance claim forms or related documents, and review them for completeness.
- 02Calculate amount of claim.
- 03Post or attach information to claim file.
- 04Transmit claims for payment or further investigation.
- 05Contact insured or other involved persons to obtain missing information.
- 06Review insurance policy to determine coverage.
- 07Process and record new insurance policies and claims.
- 08Organize or work with detailed office or warehouse records, using computers to enter, access, search or retrieve data.
- 09Provide customer service, such as limited instructions on proceeding with claims or referrals to auto repair facilities or local contractors.
- 10Correspond with insured or agent to obtain information or to inform them of account status or changes.
- 11Review and verify data, such as age, name, address, and principal sum and value of property, on insurance applications and policies.
- 12Compare information from application to criteria for policy reinstatement, and approve reinstatement when criteria are met.
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 Insurance Claims and Policy Processing 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
- 03WORKBank: Expert-Rated Automation Capacity of Occupational Tasks · 2026Shao, Zope, Jiang, Pei, Nguyen, Brynjolfsson, Yang, Stanford (2026)
- 04Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure · 2025International Labour Organization, Working Paper 140 (2025)
- 05Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations · 2025Tomlinson, Jaffe et al., Microsoft Research (2025)
- 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 Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks?
- Published research puts Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks at 60 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 Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks?
- Only partly. Individual estimates for Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks run from 50 to 79 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 Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks by score are Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping (60/100), Receptionists and Information Clerks (60/100), and Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks (61/100). Each has its own page with the research behind its number.
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- Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks61/100
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- Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping60/100
- Receptionists and Information Clerks60/100
- Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants59/100
- Order Clerks59/100
- Procurement Clerks59/100
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Informational guidance based on published research, not professional career or financial advice. Scores update as new research is ingested.