Ask questions in accordance with instructions to obtain various specified information, such as person's name, address, age, religious preference, or state of residency.

“Ask questions in accordance with instructions to obtain various specified information, such as person's name, address, age, religious preference, or state of residency.” is a core task performed by Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan. Among the occupation's 17 rated tasks, workers place it 17th by importance (#1 most important). About 95% 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.

• Interview people to obtain information. in Getting 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.

• 0.038% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• Most common interaction: none
• Average autonomy of the AI: 2.8 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 98% 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

• Locate and list addresses and households. · importance 4.4
• Ensure payment for services by verifying benefits with the person's insurance provider or working out financing options. · importance 4.4
• Identify and report problems in obtaining valid data. · importance 4.4
• Perform office duties, such as telemarketing or customer service inquiries, maintaining staff records, billing patients, or receiving payments. · importance 4.3
• Review data obtained from interview for completeness and accuracy. · importance 4.3
• Compile, record, and code results or data from interview or survey, using computer or specified form. · importance 4.2
• Perform patient services, such as answering the telephone or assisting patients with financial or medical questions. · importance 4.1
• Assist individuals in filling out applications or questionnaires. · importance 4.1
• Identify and resolve inconsistencies in interviewees' responses by means of appropriate questioning or explanation. · importance 4.0
• Contact individuals to be interviewed at home, place of business, or field location, by telephone, mail, or in person. · importance 3.9
• Supervise or train other staff members. · importance 3.9
• Collect and analyze data, such as studying old records, tallying the number of outpatients entering each day or week, or participating in federal, state, or local population surveys as a Census Enumerator. · importance 3.6
• Prepare reports to provide answers in response to specific problems. · importance 3.6
• Explain survey objectives and procedures to interviewees and interpret survey questions to help interviewees' comprehension. · importance 3.6

See all tasks on the Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan 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  = {Ask questions in accordance with instructions to obtain various specified information, such as person's name, address, age, religious preference, or state of residency.},
  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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