Instruct college students in social sciences or humanities disciplines.

Instruct college students in social sciences or humanities disciplines. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 9 occupations and seen in 10 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 10 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 8 (80%) 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 3 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.028% 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.

• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as financial accounting, principles of marketing, and operations management. · Business Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.7 · exposure with tools
• Teach political science. · Political Scientists · importance 4.6 · exposure with tools
• Teach or mentor undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology or archeology. · Anthropologists and Archeologists · importance 4.4 · exposure with tools
• Teach sociology. · Sociologists · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Teach geography. · Geographers · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as children's literature, learning and development, and reading instruction. · Education Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Educate and supervise practicum students, psychology interns, or hospital staff. · Neuropsychologists · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Educate and supervise practicum students, psychology interns, or hospital staff. · Clinical Neuropsychologists · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Teach theories, principles, and methods of economics. · Economists · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Teach and conduct research in colleges, universities, museums, and other research agencies and schools. · Historians · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Business Teachers, Postsecondary
• Political Scientists
• Anthropologists and Archeologists
• Sociologists
• Geographers
• Education Teachers, Postsecondary
• Neuropsychologists
• Economists
• Historians

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 social sciences or humanities disciplines.},
  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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