Instruct individuals and groups on ways to preserve health and prevent disease.

“Instruct individuals and groups on ways to preserve health and prevent disease.” is a core task performed by Anesthesiologists. Among the occupation's 18 rated tasks, workers place it 2nd by importance (#17 most important). About 82% 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.

• Advise patients or clients on medical issues. in Providing Consultation and Advice to Others

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.

• 0.003% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• Most common interaction: learning
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.4 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 99% 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

• Monitor patient before, during, and after anesthesia and counteract adverse reactions or complications. · importance 4.9
• Provide and maintain life support and airway management and help prepare patients for emergency surgery. · importance 4.8
• Record type and amount of anesthesia and patient condition throughout procedure. · importance 4.8
• Administer anesthetic or sedation during medical procedures, using local, intravenous, spinal, or caudal methods. · importance 4.8
• Examine patient, obtain medical history, and use diagnostic tests to determine risk during surgical, obstetrical, and other medical procedures. · importance 4.8
• Position patient on operating table to maximize patient comfort and surgical accessibility. · importance 4.7
• Coordinate administration of anesthetics with surgeons during operation. · importance 4.6
• Decide when patients have recovered or stabilized enough to be sent to another room or ward or to be sent home following outpatient surgery. · importance 4.6
• Confer with other medical professionals to determine type and method of anesthetic or sedation to render patient insensible to pain. · importance 4.5
• Order laboratory tests, x-rays, and other diagnostic procedures. · importance 4.2
• Inform students and staff of types and methods of anesthesia administration, signs of complications, and emergency methods to counteract reactions. · importance 4.2
• Provide medical care and consultation in many settings, prescribing medication and treatment and referring patients for surgery. · importance 4.1
• Manage anesthesiological services, coordinating them with other medical activities and formulating plans and procedures. · importance 4.1
• Diagnose illnesses, using examinations, tests, and reports. · importance 4.1

See all tasks on the Anesthesiologists 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  = {Instruct individuals and groups on ways to preserve health and prevent disease.},
  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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}