Will AI replace Animal Scientists?
Estimated risk score: 40 out of 100
Lower replacement risk
Estimate from published task research, not reviewed by a person · how we estimate
Within about 19 points for 4 in 5 of the jobs we checked (21 to 59).
Low confidence: only 9 of its tasks are rated.
For the occupation as a whole, from ratings of its 9 O*NET tasks published in 2023 and calibrated to our hand scores. A specialty inside it can sit higher or lower.
O*NET-SOC 19-1011.00 · Life, Physical, and Social Science
Tasks rated in 2023 as ones AI could do or speed up
Tasks a GPT-4-class model could do, or do in half the time or less: 1 of its 9 rated tasks. In O*NET’s words.
- Write up or orally communicate research findings to the scientific community, producers, and the public.
Tasks rated in 2023 as not sped up by AI
Tasks such a model was rated as not speeding up or taking over: 1 of its 9 rated tasks. In O*NET’s words.
- Crossbreed animals with existing strains or cross strains to obtain new combinations of desirable characteristics.
What the job is
Conduct research in the genetics, nutrition, reproduction, growth, and development of domestic farm animals.
Also called: Animal Nutritionist, Beef Cattle Nutritionist, Sericulturist, Dairy Scientist, Swine Specialist, Animal Geneticist, Nutrition Partner, Poultry Scientist.
Source. This site includes information from the O*NET 30.1 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. (O*NET, CC BY 4.0.) Task ratings: Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock (2023), “GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models”, data used under the MIT licence (licence texts). Our change: we averaged the ratings over this occupation’s tasks and calibrated them to our 0–100 scale. It is not a prediction about any one person and not career advice. Disagree? Write to hello@yourstopwashit.com. How we estimate