Develop new or advanced products or production methods.

Develop new or advanced products or production methods. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 6 occupations and seen in 8 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Develop operational or technical procedures or standards. in Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment .

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 8 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 7 (88%) 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 3 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.004% 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.

• Determine ways to strengthen or combine materials or develop new materials with new or specific properties for use in a variety of products and applications. · Materials Scientists · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Develop, improve, or customize products, equipment, formulas, processes, or analytical methods. · Chemists · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Research use of bacteria and microorganisms to develop vitamins, antibiotics, amino acids, grain alcohol, sugars, and polymers. · Microbiologists · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Develop new products and procedures for sterilization, food and pharmaceutical supply preservation, or microbial contamination detection. · Microbiologists · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Develop or test new drugs or medications intended for commercial distribution. · Biochemists and Biophysicists · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools
• Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes. · Chemical Technicians · importance 3.4 · no direct exposure
• Participate in all levels of bioproduct development, including proposing new products, performing market analyses, designing and performing experiments, and collaborating with operations and quality control teams during product launches. · Molecular and Cellular Biologists · importance 3.1 · exposure with tools
• Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques. · Chemical Technicians · importance 3.0 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Materials Scientists
• Chemists
• Microbiologists
• Biochemists and Biophysicists
• Chemical Technicians
• Molecular and Cellular Biologists

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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