Discuss design or technical features of products or services with technical personnel.

Discuss design or technical features of products or services with technical personnel. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 8 occupations and seen in 12 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Communicate with others about specifications or project details. in Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates .

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 12 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 10 (83%) 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 2 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.007% 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.

• Discuss project goals, equipment requirements, or methodologies with colleagues or team members. · Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Confer with customers and engineers to assess equipment needs and to determine system requirements. · Sales Engineers · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Provide feedback to product design teams so that products can be tailored to clients' needs. · Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Provide information needed for the development of custom-made machinery. · Sales Engineers · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Attend company meetings to exchange product information and coordinate work activities with other departments. · First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Consult with engineers regarding technical problems with products. · Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Contact equipment manufacturers for technical assistance, as needed. · Precision Agriculture Technicians · importance 3.2 · direct LLM exposure
• Confer with vendors to evaluate new equipment or reagents or to discuss the customization of product lines to meet user requirements. · Molecular and Cellular Biologists · importance 2.6 · exposure with tools
• Consult with machinists to ensure that electromechanical equipment or systems meet design specifications. · Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians · no direct exposure
• Discuss and plan systems with solution architects, system engineers, or cybersecurity experts to meet customer requirements. · Blockchain Engineers · direct LLM exposure
• Discuss data needs with engineers, product managers, or data scientists to identify blockchain requirements. · Blockchain Engineers · direct LLM exposure
• Discuss security solutions with information technology teams or management. · Penetration Testers · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists
• Sales Engineers
• Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
• First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
• Precision Agriculture Technicians
• Molecular and Cellular Biologists
• Penetration Testers
• Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians

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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  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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