Interpret and analyze policies, public issues, legislation, or the operations of governments, businesses, and organizations.

“Interpret and analyze policies, public issues, legislation, or the operations of governments, businesses, and organizations.” is a core task performed by Political Scientists. Among the occupation's 14 rated tasks, workers place it 8th by importance (#7 most important). About 100% 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 historical or social issues. 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: T2.

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.

• 0.24% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 24% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: learning
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.4 (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

• Teach political science. · importance 4.6
• Develop and test theories, using information from interviews, newspapers, periodicals, case law, historical papers, polls, or statistical sources. · importance 4.5
• Maintain current knowledge of government policy decisions. · importance 4.5
• Disseminate research results through academic publications, written reports, or public presentations. · importance 4.3
• Advise political science students. · importance 4.2
• Collect, analyze, and interpret data, such as election results and public opinion surveys, reporting on findings, recommendations, and conclusions. · importance 4.0
• Identify issues for research and analysis. · importance 3.9
• Serve on committees. · importance 3.1
• Forecast political, economic, and social trends. · importance 3.0
• Consult with and advise government officials, civic bodies, research agencies, the media, political parties, and others concerned with political issues. · importance 2.7
• Evaluate programs and policies, and make related recommendations to institutions and organizations. · importance 2.7
• Provide media commentary or criticism related to public policy and political issues and events. · importance 2.6
• Write drafts of legislative proposals, and prepare speeches, correspondence, and policy papers for governmental use. · importance 2.2

See all tasks on the Political 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  = {Interpret and analyze policies, public issues, legislation, or the operations of governments, businesses, and organizations.},
  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-5521}
}