Evaluate new technologies or methods.

Evaluate new technologies or methods. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 7 occupations and seen in 7 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Evaluate the characteristics, usefulness, or performance of products or technologies. in Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People .

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 7 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 7 (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 2 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.003% 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 evaluate requests from engineers, managers, and technicians for system modifications. · Telecommunications Engineering Specialists · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Evaluate new technologies to enhance or complement current research. · Molecular and Cellular Biologists · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Evaluate food processing and storage operations and assist in the development of quality assurance programs for such operations. · Food Scientists and Technologists · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Conduct research into the application or enhancement of remote sensing technology. · Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Evaluate analytical methods and procedures to determine how they might be improved. · Quality Control Analysts · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools
• Evaluate new testing and sampling methodologies or technologies to determine usefulness. · Quality Control Systems Managers · importance 3.3 · exposure with tools
• Evaluate new blockchain technologies and vendor products. · Blockchain Engineers · direct LLM exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Telecommunications Engineering Specialists
• Molecular and Cellular Biologists
• Food Scientists and Technologists
• Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists
• Quality Control Analysts
• Quality Control Systems Managers
• Blockchain Engineers

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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