Provide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families.

Provide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 11 occupations and seen in 13 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Counsel others about personal matters. in Providing Consultation and Advice to 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 13 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 2 (15%) 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 0.010% 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.

• Pray and promote spirituality. · Clergy · importance 4.8 · no direct exposure
• Offer counsel and comfort to families and friends of the deceased. · Funeral Home Managers · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Offer counsel and comfort to bereaved families or friends. · Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Care for individuals or families during periods of incapacitation, family disruption, or convalescence, providing companionship, personal care, or help in adjusting to new lifestyles. · Personal Care Aides · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Attend to the needs of the bereaved, such as by offering comfort, counseling, or after-care programs. · Funeral Attendants · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts. · Childcare Workers · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Counsel inmates and respond to legitimate questions, concerns, and requests. · Correctional Officers and Jailers · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Inform survivors of benefits for which they may be eligible. · Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Counsel students in the handling of issues such as family, financial, and educational problems. · Residential Advisors · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Encourage participants to develop their own activities and leadership skills through group discussions. · Recreation Workers · importance 3.7 · no direct exposure
• Provide advice to mourners on how to make charitable donations in honor of the deceased. · Funeral Attendants · importance 3.6 · direct LLM exposure
• Offer counsel and comfort to bereaved families or friends. · Crematory Operators · no direct exposure
• Talk to children's parents or guardians about problematic behaviors, emotional or developmental problems, or related issues. · School Bus Monitors · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Clergy
• Funeral Home Managers
• Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
• Personal Care Aides
• Funeral Attendants
• Childcare Workers
• Correctional Officers and Jailers
• Residential Advisors
• Recreation Workers
• School Bus Monitors
• Crematory Operators

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  = {Provide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families.},
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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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