Teach social science courses at the college level.

Teach social science courses at the college level. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 12 occupations and seen in 12 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 12 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 11 (92%) 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 5 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.035% 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 classical political thought, international relations, and democracy and citizenship. · Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.6 · exposure with tools
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as public speaking, media criticism, and oral traditions. · Communications Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.6 · exposure with tools
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as research methods, urban anthropology, and language and culture. · Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.6 · exposure with tools
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as food science, nutrition, and child care. · Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as econometrics, price theory, and macroeconomics. · Economics Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as criminal law, defensive policing, and investigation techniques. · Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as abnormal psychology, cognitive processes, and work motivation. · Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as race and ethnic relations, measurement and data collection, and workplace social relations. · Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as civil procedure, contracts, and torts. · Law Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as family behavior, child and adolescent mental health, or social intervention evaluation. · Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Teach courses in environmental economics. · Environmental Economists · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Teach in colleges and universities. · Materials Engineers · importance 3.4 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary
• Communications Teachers, Postsecondary
• Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary
• Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
• Economics Teachers, Postsecondary
• Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary
• Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
• Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary
• Law Teachers, Postsecondary
• Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary
• Environmental Economists
• Materials Engineers

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  = {Teach social science courses at the college level.},
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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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