Prepare research or technical reports.

Prepare research or technical reports. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 12 occupations and seen in 14 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Present research or technical information. in Documenting/Recording 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 14 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 14 (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 6 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.020% 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 reports, including assignment of company funds or recording of department revenues. · Gambling Cage Workers · importance 4.8 · direct LLM exposure
• Prepare and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements. · Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks · importance 4.6 · exposure with tools
• Participate in the publication of data or information. · Statistical Assistants · importance 4.2 · direct LLM exposure
• Prepare invoices, reports, memos, letters, financial statements, and other documents, using word processing, spreadsheet, database, or presentation software. · Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants · importance 4.2 · direct LLM exposure
• Research, compile, and prepare reports, manuals, correspondence, or other information required by management or governmental agencies. · First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Conduct research, compile data, and prepare papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees, and boards of directors. · Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Participate in the preparation of reports or scientific publications. · Bioinformatics Technicians · importance 3.8 · direct LLM exposure
• Write reports or proposals related to photonics research or development projects. · Photonics Engineers · importance 3.7 · direct LLM exposure
• Work with technical material, preparing statistical reports, planning and typing statistical tables, and combining and rearranging material from different sources. · Word Processors and Typists · importance 3.7 · direct LLM exposure
• Prepare reports summarizing daily transactions and earnings for individual customer accounts. · Brokerage Clerks · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Prepare reports to provide answers in response to specific problems. · Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan · importance 3.6 · direct LLM exposure
• Document photonics system or component design processes, including objectives, issues, or outcomes. · Photonics Engineers · importance 3.5 · direct LLM exposure
• Prepare library statistics reports. · Library Assistants, Clerical · importance 3.4 · direct LLM exposure
• Collect and report data on topics, such as patient encounters or inter-institutional problems, making recommendations for change when appropriate. · Patient Representatives · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Gambling Cage Workers
• Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
• Statistical Assistants
• Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
• First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
• Bioinformatics Technicians
• Photonics Engineers
• Word Processors and Typists
• Brokerage Clerks
• Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan
• Library Assistants, Clerical
• Patient Representatives

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  = {Prepare research or technical reports.},
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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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