Instruct college students in physical or life sciences.

Instruct college students in physical or life sciences. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 9 occupations and seen in 11 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Teach academic or vocational subjects. in Training and Teaching Others .

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 11 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 10 (91%) 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 5 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.019% 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.

• Teach or advise undergraduate or graduate students or supervise their research. · Biochemists and Biophysicists · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Instruct undergraduate and graduate students within the areas of cellular or molecular biology. · Molecular and Cellular Biologists · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Teach astronomy or astrophysics. · Astronomers · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Teach principles of medicine and medical and laboratory procedures to physicians, residents, students, and technicians. · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Communicate geological findings by writing research papers, participating in conferences, or teaching geological science at universities. · Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers · importance 4.1 · direct LLM exposure
• Teach physics to students. · Physicists · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Teach college-level courses on topics such as atmospheric and space science, meteorology, or global climate change. · Atmospheric and Space Scientists · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Instruct medical students, graduate students, or others in methods or procedures for diagnosis and management of genetic disorders. · Geneticists · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Teach or supervise students and perform research at universities and colleges. · Biologists · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Teach in colleges and universities. · Materials Scientists · importance 3.6 · no direct exposure
• Teach principles of medicine and medical and laboratory procedures to physicians, residents, students, and technicians. · Epidemiologists · importance 2.9 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Biochemists and Biophysicists
• Molecular and Cellular Biologists
• Astronomers
• Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
• Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers
• Physicists
• Atmospheric and Space Scientists
• Materials Scientists
• Epidemiologists

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  = {Instruct college students in physical or life sciences.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  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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