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Will AI replace Special Education Teachers, All Other?
Baseline AI displacement risk for Special Education Teachers, All Other, aggregated from 3 research sources.
What this score means
Special Education Teachers, All Other leans toward the safer end for Education. 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 scores 13 points below the Education average of 39. Across the 3 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 14 to 41, 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 3 research sources that scored Special Education Teachers, 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
- 02Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations · 2025Tomlinson, Jaffe et al., Microsoft Research (2025)
- 03AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023Felten, Raj, Seamans (2023)
Common questions
- How likely is AI to replace Special Education Teachers, All Other?
- Published research puts Special Education Teachers, All Other at 26 out of 100 for AI displacement risk, in the lower risk band. The number is a weighted consensus of 3 research sources and describes the typical version of the role, not any individual.
- Do researchers agree on the risk for Special Education Teachers, All Other?
- Only partly. Individual estimates for Special Education Teachers, All Other run from 14 to 41 out of 100 across the 3 sources behind this score, so the single number smooths over real disagreement. More recent and higher confidence studies carry more weight in it.
- Which education roles face similar AI exposure?
- The closest published education roles to Special Education Teachers, All Other by score are Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School (26/100), Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School (27/100), and Special Education Teachers, Elementary School (27/100). Each has its own page with the research behind its number.
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More education occupations
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School27/100
- Special Education Teachers, Elementary School27/100
- Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education27/100
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School26/100
- Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education25/100
- Museum Technicians and Conservators25/100
- Special Education Teachers, Preschool25/100
- Teaching Assistants, Special Education25/100
Informational guidance based on published research, not professional career or financial advice. Scores update as new research is ingested.