Will AI replace Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive?
Estimated risk score: 83 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 (64 to 100).
For the occupation as a whole, from ratings of its 32 O*NET tasks published in 2023 and calibrated to our hand scores. A specialty inside it can sit higher or lower.
O*NET-SOC 43-6014.00 · 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: 25 of its 32 rated tasks; the first 6 are shown. In O*NET’s words.
- Make copies of correspondence or other printed material.
- Complete forms in accordance with company procedures.
- Compose, type, and distribute meeting notes, routine correspondence, or reports, such as presentations or expense, statistical, or monthly reports.
- Conduct searches to find needed information, using such sources as the Internet.
- Create, maintain, and enter information into databases.
- Open, read, route, and distribute incoming mail or other materials and answer routine letters.
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 32 rated tasks. In O*NET’s words.
- Operate office equipment, such as fax machines, copiers, or phone systems and arrange for repairs when equipment malfunctions.
- Supervise other clerical staff and provide training and orientation to new staff.
What the job is
Perform routine administrative functions such as drafting correspondence, scheduling appointments, organizing and maintaining paper and electronic files, or providing information to callers.
Also called: Administrative Assistant (Admin Assistant), Administrative Secretary (Admin Secretary), ASA, Police, Admin Assistant, Admin Secretary, Clerk Secretary, Admin Specialist.
Closest jobs we score by hand
In the same field (Office and Administrative Support). Different jobs, each scored by a person.
Related jobs, estimated
- Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistantsestimate ±1981Very high
- Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistantsestimate ±1986Very high
- Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistantsestimate ±1989Very high
- Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeepingestimate ±1982Very high
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