Research and control animal selection and breeding practices to increase production efficiency and improve animal quality.

“Research and control animal selection and breeding practices to increase production efficiency and improve animal quality.” is a core task performed by Animal Scientists. Among the occupation's 9 rated tasks, workers place it 3rd by importance (#7 most important). About 70% 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.

• Research agricultural processes or practices. in Getting Information

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: T1.

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

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

• Study nutritional requirements of animals and nutritive values of animal feed materials. · importance 4.6
• Write up or orally communicate research findings to the scientific community, producers, and the public. · importance 4.4
• Develop improved practices in feeding, housing, sanitation, or parasite and disease control of animals. · importance 4.4
• Advise producers about improved products and techniques that could enhance their animal production efforts. · importance 4.4
• Conduct research concerning animal nutrition, breeding, or management to improve products or processes. · importance 4.3
• Study effects of management practices, processing methods, feed, or environmental conditions on quality and quantity of animal products, such as eggs and milk. · importance 4.3
• Determine genetic composition of animal populations and heritability of traits, using principles of genetics. · importance 3.2
• Crossbreed animals with existing strains or cross strains to obtain new combinations of desirable characteristics. · importance 2.9

See all tasks on the Animal Scientists 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  = {Research and control animal selection and breeding practices to increase production efficiency and improve animal quality.},
  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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