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Will AI replace Management Analysts?
Baseline AI displacement risk for Management Analysts, aggregated from 10 research sources.
What this score means
Management Analysts sits in the middle of the exposure range for Business & Operations. 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 54 out of 100 it scores 7 points above the Business & Operations average of 47. Across the 10 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 22 to 68, 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 Management Analysts, most central first.
- 01Gather and organize information on problems or procedures.
- 02Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures.
- 03Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.
- 04Document findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.
- 05Plan study of work problems and procedures, such as organizational change, communications, information flow, integrated production methods, inventory control, or cost analysis.
- 06Interview personnel and conduct on-site observation to ascertain unit functions, work performed, and methods, equipment, and personnel used.
- 07Prepare manuals and train workers in use of new forms, reports, procedures or equipment, according to organizational policy.
- 08Review forms and reports and confer with management and users about format, distribution, and purpose, identifying problems and improvements.
- 09Develop and implement records management program for filing, protection, and retrieval of records, and assure compliance with program.
- 10Design, evaluate, recommend, and approve changes of forms and reports.
- 11Recommend purchase of storage equipment and design area layout to locate equipment in space available.
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 10 research sources that scored Management 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 · 2026Anthropic
- 02Global Automation Atlas: Task Substitution Exposure by Occupation · 2026Garg, Crosta, Baier (2026), arXiv:2605.17086
- 03The Fearless Future: 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer — UAE Analysis · 2026PwC, Global AI Jobs Barometer (2026)
- 04WORKBank: Expert-Rated Automation Capacity of Occupational Tasks · 2026Shao, Zope, Jiang, Pei, Nguyen, Brynjolfsson, Yang, Stanford (2026)
- 05Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure · 2025International Labour Organization, Working Paper 140 (2025)
- 06Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations · 2025Tomlinson, Jaffe et al., Microsoft Research (2025)
- 07A new future of work: The race to deploy AI and raise skills in Europe and beyond · 2024McKinsey Global Institute (2024)
- 08GPTs are GPTs: Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs · 2024Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin, Rock (Science, 2024)
- 09AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023Felten, Raj, Seamans (2023)
- 10Generative AI and the Future of Work in America · 2023McKinsey Global Institute (2023)
Common questions
- How likely is AI to replace Management Analysts?
- Published research puts Management Analysts at 54 out of 100 for AI displacement risk, in the transitioning band. The number is a weighted consensus of 10 research sources and describes the typical version of the role, not any individual.
- Do researchers agree on the risk for Management Analysts?
- Only partly. Individual estimates for Management Analysts run from 22 to 68 out of 100 across the 10 sources behind this score, so the single number smooths over real disagreement. More recent and higher confidence studies carry more weight in it.
- Which business & operations roles face similar AI exposure?
- The closest published business & operations roles to Management Analysts by score are Online Merchants (55/100), Human Resources Specialists (53/100), and Logistics Analysts (53/100). Each has its own page with the research behind its number.
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- Human Resources Specialists53/100
- Logistics Analysts53/100
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Informational guidance based on published research, not professional career or financial advice. Scores update as new research is ingested.