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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Actors?
Task-level automation exposure for Actors: 18 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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26%
weighted task index
18 of 18 tasks scored
Median Salary
$81,670 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — 27-2010 group row
Employment Level
High
198,120 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
0.0%
employment change
6,300 openings a year · BLS line item
What the score is made of
Each task is mapped to its work activities, scored for AI automation potential, and weighted by how important those activities are to the job. These are the components.
Automation potential 26%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 11%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 0%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 3%
Share in documenting, recording, and administrative activities.
Rewritten by O*NET 0%
Share of weighted tasks O*NET rewrote in a recent update. Reported, not folded into the score.
Consequence of error 9/100
Low
O*NET's own rating of how serious an uncorrectable mistake would be here — respondents, not us. Deliberately not in the index: the score measures what AI can do with the task content, and multiplying it by stakes would be our judgment dressed as data.
Constituent Task Mix
18 tasks for this occupation, weighted by work-activity importance. Shares below are of total task weight, not task count.
High exposure (≥ 60% of the task is automatable) 8%
1 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 25%
5 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 67%
12 tasks
How would you survive?
Move your week away from the high-exposure tasks and toward the ones that need judgment. The simulator recalculates the index as you shift the mix.
Simulate Upskilling →Emerging & rewritten tasks
Tasks O*NET added or rewrote for this occupation in its recent updates (05/2025 – 08/2026), with who proposed them. Additions are not in the scored task inventory — they are new work O*NET is still measuring, so they appear here and nowhere in the index. A Revision replaces a task that is scored, which is why only those move the "Rewritten by O*NET" share.
- New 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Create self-recordings to audition for roles.
Constituent Tasks
#7648 · Core · 5% automatable
Attend auditions and casting calls to audition for roles.
physical manipulation — Live audition performance is embodied
Audition for roles.
#7644 · Core · 20% automatable
Work closely with directors, other actors, and playwrights to find the interpretation most suited to the role.
interpersonal — Collaborative artistic production needs live human coordination
Collaborate with others to prepare or perform artistic productions.
#7649 · Core · 12% automatable
Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements, to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences.
interpersonal — Live comedic/dramatic performance requires embodied human presence
Entertain public with comedic or dramatic performances.
#7643 · Core · 38% automatable
Study and rehearse roles from scripts to interpret, learn and memorize lines, stunts, and cues as directed.
text generation — Script comprehension and requirement extraction well handled
Study scripts to determine project requirements. Practice athletic or artistic skills.
#7646 · Core · 20% automatable
Collaborate with other actors as part of an ensemble.
interpersonal — Collaborative artistic production needs live human coordination
Collaborate with others to prepare or perform artistic productions.
#7645 · Core · 72% automatable
Learn about characters in scripts and their relationships to each other to develop role interpretations.
text generation — Script comprehension and requirement extraction well handled
Study scripts to determine project requirements.
#7647 · Core · 12% automatable
Perform humorous and serious interpretations of emotions, actions, and situations, using body movements, facial expressions, and gestures.
interpersonal — Live comedic/dramatic performance requires embodied human presence
Entertain public with comedic or dramatic performances.
#7652 · Core · 12% automatable
Read from scripts or books to narrate action or to inform or entertain audiences, utilizing few or no stage props.
interpersonal — Live comedic/dramatic performance requires embodied human presence
Entertain public with comedic or dramatic performances.
#7650 · Core · 55% automatable
Work with other crew members responsible for lighting, costumes, make-up, and props.
interpersonal — Technical detail negotiation is interactive human work
Collaborate with others to determine technical details of productions.
#7653 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Promote productions using means such as interviews about plays or movies.
text generation — Promotional content drafted; human runs channels and relationships
Promote products, activities, or organizations.
#7656 · Supplemental · 12% automatable
Tell jokes, perform comic dances, songs and skits, impersonate mannerisms and voices of others, contort face, and use other devices to amuse audiences.
interpersonal — Live comedic/dramatic performance requires embodied human presence
Entertain public with comedic or dramatic performances.
#7654 · Supplemental · 50% automatable
Write original or adapted material for dramas, comedies, puppet shows, narration, or other performances.
text generation — Creative drafting aided; artistic judgment human-owned
Write material for artistic or entertainment purposes.
#7651 · Supplemental · 10% automatable
Sing or dance during dramatic or comedic performances.
interpersonal — Live comedic/dramatic performance requires embodied human presence
Perform music for the public. Entertain public with comedic or dramatic performances.
#7655 · Supplemental · 12% automatable
Prepare and perform action stunts for motion picture, television, or stage productions.
interpersonal — Live comedic/dramatic performance requires embodied human presence
Entertain public with comedic or dramatic performances.
#7657 · Supplemental · 45% automatable
Introduce performances and performers to stimulate excitement and coordinate smooth transition of acts during events.
interpersonal — Informing audiences is live presence and persuasion
Inform viewers, listeners, or audiences.
#7659 · Supplemental · 12% automatable
Dress in comical clown costumes and makeup, and perform comedy routines to entertain audiences.
interpersonal — Live comedic/dramatic performance requires embodied human presence
Entertain public with comedic or dramatic performances.
#7661 · Supplemental · 8% automatable
Construct puppets and ventriloquist dummies, and sew accessory clothing, using hand tools and machines.
physical manipulation — Crafting physical objects is manual artisan work
Construct distinctive physical objects for artistic, functional, or commercial purposes.
#7660 · Supplemental · 12% automatable
Perform original and stock tricks of illusion to entertain and mystify audiences, occasionally including audience members as participants.
interpersonal — Live comedic/dramatic performance requires embodied human presence
Entertain public with comedic or dramatic performances.
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How this was scored
- 1. Tasks. O*NET task statements for this occupation, from a release whose newest record is dated 08/2026.
- 2. Work activities. Each task maps to 1–5 Detailed Work Activities; each activity belongs to one of 41 Generalized Work Activities that O*NET rates for importance (1–5) in this occupation.
- 3. Automation potential. Every work activity carries one score for how far current AI can perform it end-to-end. Tasks inherit the mean of their activities.
- 4. Weighting. Task weight = 0.35 + 0.65 × (importance − 1)/4, scaled by how often the task is performed and by 0.7 for Supplemental tasks. Importance is the task's own O*NET rating where it exists (18,369 of 18,838 tasks); the rest inherit their work activities' importance. The index is the weighted mean.
Check: across the 910 occupations where O*NET also rates how far machine speed sets the pace, this index moves opposite to it (Spearman ρ = -0.49). The more a job is paced by equipment, the less of its task content AI can address — the relationship you would expect if the scoring is working.
Sources · O*NET 31.0 (task records to 08/2026) · BLS OEWS May 2025 · BLS projections 2025-2035 · rubric v2.1 · tasks for O*NET, not a forecast
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