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Will AI replace Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other?
Baseline AI displacement risk for Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other, aggregated from 4 research sources.
What this score means
Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other sits in the middle of the exposure range for Research & Science. 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 46 out of 100 it scores 7 points above the Research & Science average of 39. Across the 4 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 14 to 63, 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
The research behind this score
This baseline aggregates 4 research sources that scored Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other 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
- 02Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure · 2025International Labour Organization, Working Paper 140 (2025)
- 03Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations · 2025Tomlinson, Jaffe et al., Microsoft Research (2025)
- 04AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023Felten, Raj, Seamans (2023)
Common questions
- How likely is AI to replace Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other?
- Published research puts Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other at 46 out of 100 for AI displacement risk, in the transitioning band. The number is a weighted consensus of 4 research sources and describes the typical version of the role, not any individual.
- Do researchers agree on the risk for Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other?
- Only partly. Individual estimates for Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other run from 14 to 63 out of 100 across the 4 sources behind this score, so the single number smooths over real disagreement. More recent and higher confidence studies carry more weight in it.
- Which research & science roles face similar AI exposure?
- The closest published research & science roles to Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other by score are Historians (46/100), School Psychologists (46/100), and Industrial-Organizational Psychologists (47/100). Each has its own page with the research behind its number.
Also covers
Behavioral Scientist · Computational Linguist · Demographer · Developmental Psychologist · Director of Research · Ethnologist · Etymologist · Experimental Psychologist and related titles
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More research & science occupations
- Industrial-Organizational Psychologists47/100
- Historians46/100
- School Psychologists46/100
- Animal Scientists45/100
- Bioinformatics Scientists45/100
- Chemists45/100
- Materials Scientists45/100
- Atmospheric and Space Scientists44/100
Informational guidance based on published research, not professional career or financial advice. Scores update as new research is ingested.