Perform routine system administrative functions, such as troubleshooting, back-ups, or upgrades.

“Perform routine system administrative functions, such as troubleshooting, back-ups, or upgrades.” is a supplemental task performed by Bioinformatics Technicians. Among the occupation's 19 rated tasks, workers place it 4th by importance (#16 most important). About 58% 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.

• Implement security measures for computer or information systems. in Working with Computers
• Resolve computer problems. in Working with Computers

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.

• 0.29% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 55% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: feedback loop
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.2 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 86% 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.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Analyze or manipulate bioinformatics data using software packages, statistical applications, or data mining techniques. · importance 4.0
• Develop or apply data mining and machine learning algorithms. · importance 3.9
• Extend existing software programs, web-based interactive tools, or database queries as sequence management and analysis needs evolve. · importance 3.9
• Maintain awareness of new and emerging computational methods and technologies. · importance 3.9
• Design or implement web-based tools for querying large-scale biological databases. · importance 3.9
• Conduct quality analyses of data inputs and resulting analyses or predictions. · importance 3.8
• Enter or retrieve information from structural databases, protein sequence motif databases, mutation databases, genomic databases or gene expression databases. · importance 3.8
• Develop or maintain applications that process biologically based data into searchable databases for purposes of analysis, calculation, or presentation. · importance 3.8
• Confer with researchers, clinicians, or information technology staff to determine data needs and programming requirements and to provide assistance with database-related research activities. · importance 3.8
• Participate in the preparation of reports or scientific publications. · importance 3.8
• Monitor database performance and perform any necessary maintenance, upgrades, or repairs. · importance 3.6
• Confer with database users about project timelines and changes. · importance 3.6
• Write computer programs or scripts to be used in querying databases. · importance 3.5
• Document all database changes, modifications, or problems. · importance 3.5

See all tasks on the Bioinformatics Technicians 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  = {Perform routine system administrative functions, such as troubleshooting, back-ups, or upgrades.},
  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},
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}