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Select, acquire, and maintain programs, music, films, and other needed materials and obtain legal clearances for their use as necessary.

Work task

“Select, acquire, and maintain programs, music, films, and other needed materials and obtain legal clearances for their use as necessary.” is a core task performed by Media Programming Directors. Among the occupation's 23 rated tasks, workers place it 10th by importance (#14 most important). About 73% 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.

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.

  • 0.002% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
  • Most common interaction: directive
  • Average autonomy of the AI: 3.4 (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.

Works with AI 30%
Hands it to AI 51%

How people interact with AI on this task

Interaction pattern Share % What it means
directive 51% you give the instruction; AI produces a finished result
task iteration 30% you and AI go back and forth on the work

Other tasks in this occupation

See all tasks on the Media Programming Directors 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.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Plain

Singulariki. "Select, acquire, and maintain programs, music, films, and other needed materials and obtain legal clearances for their use as necessary.." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from 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. https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-7672

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Select, acquire, and maintain programs, music, films, and other needed materials and obtain legal clearances for their use as necessary.. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-7672

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-task-7672,
  title  = {Select, acquire, and maintain programs, music, films, and other needed materials and obtain legal clearances for their use as necessary.},
  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-7672}
}

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