Design, analyze, and decipher encryption systems designed to transmit military, political, financial, or law-enforcement-related information in code.

“Design, analyze, and decipher encryption systems designed to transmit military, political, financial, or law-enforcement-related information in code.” is a supplemental task performed by Mathematicians. Among the occupation's 11 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#11 most important). About 65% 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.

• Analyze performance of systems or equipment. in Analyzing Data or Information
• Develop operational or technical procedures or standards. in Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment

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: 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.

• 0.008% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 88% 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.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Maintain knowledge in the field by reading professional journals, talking with other mathematicians, and attending professional conferences. · importance 4.3
• Develop new principles and new relationships between existing mathematical principles to advance mathematical science. · importance 4.1
• Disseminate research by writing reports, publishing papers, or presenting at professional conferences. · importance 4.1
• Assemble sets of assumptions, and explore the consequences of each set. · importance 4.0
• Perform computations and apply methods of numerical analysis to data. · importance 3.9
• Address the relationships of quantities, magnitudes, and forms through the use of numbers and symbols. · importance 3.9
• Conduct research to extend mathematical knowledge in traditional areas, such as algebra, geometry, probability, and logic. · importance 3.8
• Apply mathematical theories and techniques to the solution of practical problems in business, engineering, the sciences, or other fields. · importance 3.7
• Develop mathematical or statistical models of phenomena to be used for analysis or for computational simulation. · importance 3.7
• Develop computational methods for solving problems that occur in areas of science and engineering or that come from applications in business or industry. · importance 3.2

See all tasks on the Mathematicians 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  = {Design, analyze, and decipher encryption systems designed to transmit military, political, financial, or law-enforcement-related information in code.},
  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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