Will AI Replace Biologists?

Program and use computers to store, process, and analyze data.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Prepare technical and research reports, such as environmental impact reports, and communicate the results to individuals in industry, government, or the general public.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Supervise biological technicians and technologists and other scientists.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Develop and maintain liaisons and effective working relations with groups and individuals, agencies, and the public to encourage cooperative management strategies or to develop information and interpret findings.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Identify, classify, and study structure, behavior, ecology, physiology, nutrition, culture, and distribution of plant and animal species.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Study basic principles of plant and animal life, such as origin, relationship, development, anatomy, and function.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Collect and analyze biological data about relationships among and between organisms and their environment.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Review reports and proposals, such as those relating to land use classifications and recreational development, for accuracy, adequacy, or adherence to policies, regulations, or scientific standards.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Write grant proposals to obtain funding for biological research.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Teach or supervise students and perform research at universities and colleges.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prepare requests for proposals or statements of work.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Communicate test results to state and federal representatives and general public.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Represent employer in a technical capacity at conferences.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Research environmental effects of present and potential uses of land and water areas, determining methods of improving environmental conditions or such outputs as crop yields.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Study aquatic plants and animals and environmental conditions affecting them, such as radioactivity or pollution.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Study and manage wild animal populations.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prepare plans for management of renewable resources.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Measure salinity, acidity, light, oxygen content, and other physical conditions of water to determine their relationship to aquatic life.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Develop pest management and control measures, and conduct risk assessments related to pest exclusion, using scientific methods.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Develop methods and apparatus for securing representative plant, animal, aquatic, or soil samples.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Plan and administer biological research programs for government, research firms, medical industries, or manufacturing firms.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Study reactions of plants, animals, and marine species to parasites.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.