Will AI replace Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary?

What this score means

Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary 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 39 out of 100 it sits close to the Education average of 41. Across the 4 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 30 to 58, 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 Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary, most central first, showing 12 of 20.

• 01Teach undergraduate-level courses.
• 02Evaluate and grade examinations, assignments, or papers, and record grades.
• 03Lead discussion sections, tutorials, or laboratory sections.
• 04Develop teaching materials, such as syllabi, visual aids, answer keys, supplementary notes, or course Web sites.
• 05Inform students of the procedures for completing and submitting class work, such as lab reports.
• 06Return assignments to students in accordance with established deadlines.
• 07Prepare or proctor examinations.
• 08Tutor or mentor students who need additional instruction.
• 09Meet with supervisors to discuss students' grades or to complete required grade-related paperwork.
• 10Schedule and maintain regular office hours to meet with students.
• 11Order or obtain materials needed for classes.
• 12Copy and distribute classroom materials.

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 Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary 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

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