Evaluate designs or specifications to ensure quality.

Evaluate designs or specifications to ensure quality. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 12 occupations and seen in 15 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Evaluate designs, specifications, or other technical data. in Analyzing Data or Information .

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 15 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 15 (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 0.002% 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.

• Review and critique proposals, plans, or designs related to water or wastewater treatment systems. · Water/Wastewater Engineers · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections. · Surveying and Mapping Technicians · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Review completed construction drawings and cost estimates for accuracy and conformity to standards and regulations. · Electrical and Electronics Drafters · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Check construction plans, design calculations, or cost estimations to ensure completeness, accuracy, or conformity to engineering standards or practices. · Transportation Engineers · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Review or approve designs, calculations, or cost estimates. · Robotics Engineers · importance 4.1 · direct LLM exposure
• Review plans and specifications for construction of new machinery or equipment to determine whether all safety requirements have been met. · Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Review product designs for manufacturability or completeness. · Manufacturing Engineers · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Review electrical engineering plans to ensure adherence to design specifications and compliance with applicable electrical codes and standards. · Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Review technical documents to ensure completeness and conformance to requirements. · Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians · importance 3.8 · direct LLM exposure
• Evaluate product data or design from inspections or reports for conformance to engineering principles, customer requirements, environmental regulations, or quality standards. · Aerospace Engineers · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Review existing standards, controls, or equipment used, recommending changes or upgrades as needed. · Geodetic Surveyors · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Review existing electrical engineering criteria to identify necessary revisions, deletions, or amendments to outdated material. · Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians · importance 3.7 · direct LLM exposure
• Evaluate precision and accuracy of production and testing equipment and engineering drawings to formulate corrective action plan. · Industrial Engineers · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Evaluate tool drawing designs by measuring drawing dimensions and comparing with original specifications for form and function using engineering skills. · Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Review rough sketches, drawings, specifications, and other engineering data to ensure that they conform to design concepts. · Architectural and Civil Drafters · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Water/Wastewater Engineers
• Surveying and Mapping Technicians
• Electrical and Electronics Drafters
• Robotics Engineers
• Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
• Manufacturing Engineers
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
• Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians
• Geodetic Surveyors
• Aerospace Engineers
• Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
• Architectural and Civil Drafters

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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