Review records or reports for clarity and completeness and maintain records or reports, as required under federal law.

“Review records or reports for clarity and completeness and maintain records or reports, as required under federal law.” is a core task performed by Air Traffic Controllers. Among the occupation's 23 rated tasks, workers place it 2nd by importance (#22 most important). About 69% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Examine materials or documentation for accuracy or compliance. in Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
• Maintain operational records. in Documenting/Recording Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 90% of that use is work-related
• 100% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Inform pilots about nearby planes or potentially hazardous conditions, such as weather, speed and direction of wind, or visibility problems. · importance 4.9
• Issue landing and take-off authorizations or instructions. · importance 4.8
• Provide flight path changes or directions to emergency landing fields for pilots traveling in bad weather or in emergency situations. · importance 4.8
• Transfer control of departing flights to traffic control centers and accept control of arriving flights. · importance 4.8
• Alert airport emergency services in cases of emergency or when aircraft are experiencing difficulties. · importance 4.8
• Monitor or direct the movement of aircraft within an assigned air space or on the ground at airports to minimize delays and maximize safety. · importance 4.8
• Direct pilots to runways when space is available or direct them to maintain a traffic pattern until there is space for them to land. · importance 4.8
• Monitor aircraft within a specific airspace, using radar, computer equipment, or visual references. · importance 4.7
• Direct ground traffic, including taxiing aircraft, maintenance or baggage vehicles, or airport workers. · importance 4.7
• Contact pilots by radio to provide meteorological, navigational, or other information. · importance 4.6
• Maintain radio or telephone contact with adjacent control towers, terminal control units, or other area control centers to coordinate aircraft movement. · importance 4.6
• Determine the timing or procedures for flight vector changes. · importance 4.5
• Initiate or coordinate searches for missing aircraft. · importance 4.5
• Provide on-the-job training to new air traffic controllers. · importance 4.5

See all tasks on the Air Traffic Controllers page.

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  = {Review records or reports for clarity and completeness and maintain records or reports, as required under federal law.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  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},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-12748}
}