Collaborate with technical specialists to resolve design or development problems.

Collaborate with technical specialists to resolve design or development problems. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 7 occupations and seen in 10 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Coordinate with others to resolve problems. in Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 10 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 10 (100%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 1 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.015% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Collaborate with engineers to research, analyze, or resolve complex transportation design issues. · Transportation Planners · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Confer with process engineers, plant operators, flavor experts, and packaging and marketing specialists to resolve problems in product development. · Food Scientists and Technologists · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Consult with remote sensing scientists, surveyors, cartographers, or engineers to determine project needs. · Remote Sensing Technicians · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Collaborate with other professionals to develop sustainable transportation strategies at the local, regional, or national level. · Transportation Planners · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Coordinate work with economic consultants or architects during the formulation of plans or the design of large pieces of infrastructure. · Urban and Regional Planners · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Collaborate with economic development planners to decide on the implementation of proposed development policies, plans, and programs based on culturally institutionalized barriers and facilitating circumstances. · Anthropologists and Archeologists · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools
• Confer with information technology specialists to develop computer applications for genetic data analysis. · Geneticists · importance 3.3 · direct LLM exposure
• Consult with engineers or other technical personnel working on construction projects about the effects of soil problems and possible solutions to these problems. · Soil and Plant Scientists · importance 3.3 · exposure with tools
• Confer with departments, such as marketing, business development, or operations, to coordinate product development or improvement. · Bioinformatics Scientists · importance 3.0 · exposure with tools
• Collaborate with software developers in the development and modification of commercial bioinformatics software. · Bioinformatics Scientists · importance 2.8 · direct LLM exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Transportation Planners
• Food Scientists and Technologists
• Remote Sensing Technicians
• Urban and Regional Planners
• Anthropologists and Archeologists
• Soil and Plant Scientists
• Geneticists

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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