Will AI replace Intelligence Analysts?

What this score means

Intelligence Analysts leans toward the safer end for Public Sector / Government. 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 30 out of 100 it scores 5 points above the Public Sector / Government average of 25. Across the 3 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 20 to 40, 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 Intelligence Analysts, most central first, showing 12 of 21.

• 01Validate known intelligence with data from other sources.
• 02Gather, analyze, correlate, or evaluate information from a variety of resources, such as law enforcement databases.
• 03Evaluate records of communications, such as telephone calls, to plot activity and determine the size and location of criminal groups and members.
• 04Gather intelligence information by field observation, confidential information sources, or public records.
• 05Analyze intelligence data to identify patterns and trends in criminal activity.
• 06Prepare comprehensive written reports, presentations, maps, or charts, based on research, collection, and analysis of intelligence data.
• 07Collaborate with representatives from other government and intelligence organizations to share information or coordinate intelligence activities.
• 08Link or chart suspects to criminal organizations or events to determine activities and interrelationships.
• 09Establish criminal profiles to aid in connecting criminal organizations with their members.
• 10Identify gaps in information.
• 11Design, use, or maintain databases and software applications, such as geographic information systems (GIS) mapping and artificial intelligence tools.
• 12Predict future gang, organized crime, or terrorist activity, using analyses of intelligence data.

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 3 research sources that scored Intelligence Analysts 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
• 02GPTs are GPTs: Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs · 2024
• 03AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023

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