Supervise scientific or technical personnel.

Supervise scientific or technical personnel. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 16 occupations and seen in 20 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Supervise personnel activities. in Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates .

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 20 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 13 (65%) 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 1 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.002% 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.

• Supervise or direct the work of other geneticists, biologists, technicians, or biometricians working on genetics research projects. · Geneticists · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Manage laboratory teams or monitor the quality of a team's work. · Biochemists and Biophysicists · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Supervise biological technologists and technicians and other scientists. · Microbiologists · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Direct and review the work of staff members, including survey support staff and interviewers who gather survey data. · Survey Researchers · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Supervise and provide technical guidance, training, or assistance to employees working in the field to restore habitats. · Environmental Restoration Planners · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Supervise biological technicians and technologists and other scientists. · Biologists · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Supervise technical personnel and postdoctoral research fellows. · Molecular and Cellular Biologists · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Plan and direct activities of workers who operate equipment to collect data. · Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Coordinate and supervise the work of professional and technical staff, including research assistants, technologists, and technicians. · Hydrologists · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Supervise or coordinate the work of urban planning technicians or technologists. · Urban and Regional Planners · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Train and lead forest and conservation workers in seasonal activities, such as planting tree seedlings, putting out forest fires, and maintaining recreational facilities. · Forest and Conservation Technicians · importance 3.7 · no direct exposure
• Direct, coordinate, or advise personnel in test procedures for analyzing components or physical properties of materials. · Chemists · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Supervise or train agricultural technicians or farm laborers. · Agricultural Technicians · importance 3.6 · no direct exposure
• Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products. · Chemical Technicians · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Direct work of statistical clerks, statisticians, and others who compile and evaluate research data. · Sociologists · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Direct the work of technicians and information technology staff applying bioinformatics tools or applications in areas such as proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, or clinical bioinformatics. · Bioinformatics Scientists · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Supervise the work of survey interviewers. · Social Science Research Assistants · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools
• Supervise or train students, environmental technologists, technicians, or other related staff. · Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health · importance 3.4 · no direct exposure
• Supervise professional, technical, and clerical personnel. · Epidemiologists · importance 3.4 · no direct exposure
• Direct activities of workers in laboratory. · Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health · importance 3.0 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Geneticists
• Biochemists and Biophysicists
• Microbiologists
• Survey Researchers
• Environmental Restoration Planners
• Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians
• Hydrologists
• Urban and Regional Planners
• Forest and Conservation Technicians
• Chemists
• Agricultural Technicians
• Chemical Technicians
• Sociologists
• Social Science Research Assistants
• Epidemiologists
• Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health

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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  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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