Locate guests to appear on talk or interview shows.

“Locate guests to appear on talk or interview shows.” is a supplemental task performed by Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys. Among the occupation's 24 rated tasks, workers place it 5th by importance (#20 most important). About 81% 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.

• Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures. in Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time 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 0.50. 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.

• 0.002% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• Most common interaction: directive
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.1 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 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.

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

• Read news flashes to inform audiences of important events. · importance 4.6
• Announce musical selections, station breaks, commercials, or public service information, and accept requests from listening audience. · importance 4.6
• Operate control consoles. · importance 4.5
• Identify stations, and introduce or close shows, ad-libbing or using memorized or read scripts. · importance 4.5
• Study background information to prepare for programs or interviews. · importance 4.4
• Prepare and deliver news, sports, or weather reports, gathering and rewriting material so that it will convey required information and fit specific time slots. · importance 4.4
• Record commercials for later broadcast. · importance 4.3
• Keep daily program logs to provide information on all elements aired during broadcast, such as musical selections and station promotions. · importance 4.3
• Develop story lines for broadcasts. · importance 4.2
• Select program content, in conjunction with producers and assistants, based on factors such as program specialties, audience tastes, or requests from the public. · importance 4.1
• Write and edit video and scripts for broadcasts. · importance 4.0
• Interview show guests about their lives, their work, or topics of current interest. · importance 4.0
• Maintain organization of the music library. · importance 4.0
• Comment on music and other matters, such as weather or traffic conditions. · importance 3.9

See all tasks on the Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys 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.

@misc{singulariki-task-3938,
  title  = {Locate guests to appear on talk or interview shows.},
  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-3938}
}