Will AI replace Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants?
Estimated risk score: 81 out of 100
Very high 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 (62 to 100).
For the occupation as a whole, from ratings of its 22 O*NET tasks published in 2023 and calibrated to our hand scores. A specialty inside it can sit higher or lower.
O*NET-SOC 43-6011.00 · Office and Administrative Support
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: 15 of its 22 rated tasks; the first 6 are shown. In O*NET’s words.
- Attend meetings to record minutes.
- Open, sort, and distribute incoming correspondence, including faxes and email.
- Prepare invoices, reports, memos, letters, financial statements, and other documents, using word processing, spreadsheet, database, or presentation software.
- Prepare responses to correspondence containing routine inquiries.
- Provide clerical support to other departments.
- Read and analyze incoming memos, submissions, and reports to determine their significance and plan their distribution.
Tasks rated in 2023 as not sped up by AI
Tasks such a model was rated as not speeding up or taking over: 2 of its 22 rated tasks. In O*NET’s words.
- Greet visitors and determine whether they should be given access to specific individuals.
- Meet with individuals, special interest groups, and others on behalf of executives, committees, and boards of directors.
What the job is
Provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, and handling information requests, as well as performing routine administrative functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. May also train and supervise lower-level clerical staff.
Also called: Executive Assistant, Executive Secretary, Administrative Assistant, Administrative Secretary, VP Assistant, VP Secretary, Protocol Officer, Project Assistant.
Closest jobs we score by hand
In the same field (Office and Administrative Support). Different jobs, each scored by a person.
Related jobs, estimated
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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