Evaluate environmental impact of operational or development activities.

Evaluate environmental impact of operational or development activities. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 5 occupations and seen in 6 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Investigate the environmental impact of industrial or development activities. in Getting 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 6 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 6 (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.

• Perform environmental quality work in field or office settings. · Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Formulate environmental plan to be practical, esthetic, and conducive to intended purposes, such as raising productivity or selling merchandise. · Interior Designers · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Evaluate regulatory affairs aspects that are specifically green, such as the use of toxic substances in packaging, carbon footprinting issues, or green policy implementation. · Regulatory Affairs Managers · importance 3.1 · exposure with tools
• Evaluate the environmental impacts of engineering, architecture, or research and development activities. · Architectural and Engineering Managers · importance 3.0 · exposure with tools
• Conduct or oversee the conduct of life cycle analyses to determine the environmental impacts of products, processes, or systems. · Supply Chain Managers · importance 2.7 · exposure with tools
• Investigate or review the carbon footprints and environmental performance records of current or potential storage and distribution service providers. · Supply Chain Managers · importance 2.5 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians
• Interior Designers
• Regulatory Affairs Managers
• Architectural and Engineering Managers
• Supply Chain Managers

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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  title  = {Evaluate environmental impact of operational or development activities.},
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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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