Select educational materials or equipment.

Select educational materials or equipment. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 39 occupations and seen in 39 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Select materials or equipment for operations or projects. in Making Decisions and Solving Problems .

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 39 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 39 (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 21 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 materials, using book reviews, catalogs, faculty recommendations, and current holdings to select and order print, audio-visual, and electronic resources. · Librarians and Media Collections Specialists · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Select and assemble books, materials, supplies, and equipment for training, courses, or projects. · Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Communications Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · History Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Law Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and performance pieces. · Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Business Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Select, order, and maintain materials and supplies for teaching and research, such as textbooks, chemicals, and laboratory equipment. · Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Select, order, store, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies. · Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks or laboratory equipment. · Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Economics Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Physics Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Education Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment. · Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.3 · exposure with tools
• Select, order, and issue books, materials, and supplies for courses or projects. · Self-Enrichment Teachers · importance 3.3 · exposure with tools
• Select, order, and issue books, materials, and supplies for courses or projects. · Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors · importance 3.2 · exposure with tools
• Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. · Geography Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.0 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Librarians and Media Collections Specialists
• Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
• Communications Teachers, Postsecondary
• History Teachers, Postsecondary
• Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
• Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
• Law Teachers, Postsecondary
• Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
• Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary
• Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
• Business Teachers, Postsecondary
• Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
• Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary
• Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary
• Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School
• Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary
• Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary
• Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary
• Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary
• English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
• Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary
• Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
• Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary
• Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary
• Economics Teachers, Postsecondary
• Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary
• Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary
• Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary
• Physics Teachers, Postsecondary
• Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary
• Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
• Education Teachers, Postsecondary
• Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
• Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary
• Self-Enrichment Teachers
• Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
• Geography Teachers, Postsecondary

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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