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Will AI replace Nurse Midwives?

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Baseline AI displacement risk for Nurse Midwives, aggregated from 4 research sources.

What this score means

Nurse Midwives leans toward the safer end for Healthcare. 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 26 out of 100 it sits close to the Healthcare average of 26. Across the 4 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 21 to 35, 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 Nurse Midwives, most central first, showing 12 of 21.

01Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
02Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
03Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.
04Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms.
05Prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations.
06Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.
07Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others.
08Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.
09Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize patients.
10Document findings of physical examinations.
11Educate patients and family members regarding prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, or interconception care.
12Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations.

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 Nurse Midwives 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

Also covers

Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) · Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) · Direct-Entry Midwife · Nurse Midwife · Postpartum Nurse · Postpartum RN (Postpartum Registered Nurse) · Registered Nurse Midwife · Staff Certified Nurse Midwife and related titles

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