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Will AI Replace Industrial-Organizational Psychologists?
Task-level automation exposure for Industrial-Organizational Psychologists: 25 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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50%
weighted task index
25 of 25 tasks scored
Median Salary
$193,950 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Low
790 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+6.5%
employment change
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 50%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 0%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 52%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 11%
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 15/100
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
25 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) 25%
6 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 64%
15 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 11%
4 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 08/2023 · Occupational Expert
Develop and administer surveys to employees of organizations.
- New 08/2023 · Occupational Expert
Teach industrial-organizational psychology courses to undergraduate or graduate students.
Constituent Tasks
#20230 · Core · 62% automatable
Provide advice on best practices and implementation for selection.
decision support — Drafts advice; accountability and context owned by human
Advise others on business or operational matters.
#7560 · Core · 55% automatable
Develop and implement employee selection or placement programs.
decision support — Methods drafted; methodological rigor human
Develop methods of social or economic research.
#7572 · Core · 45% automatable
Analyze data, using statistical methods and applications, to evaluate the outcomes and effectiveness of workplace programs.
interpersonal — Org behavior research needs human subjects and judgment
Conduct scientific research of organizational behavior or processes.
#7568 · Core · 55% automatable
Develop interview techniques, rating scales, and psychological tests used to assess skills, abilities, and interests for the purpose of employee selection, placement, or promotion.
decision support — Methods drafted; methodological rigor human
Develop methods of social or economic research.
#7562 · Core · 30% automatable
Observe and interview workers to obtain information about the physical, mental, and educational requirements of jobs, as well as information about aspects such as job satisfaction.
interpersonal — Observation and interviews are inherently human
Collect information from people through observation, interviews, or surveys.
#7571 · Core · 48% automatable
Facilitate organizational development and change.
decision support — Drafts policy options; political judgment owned by human
Implement organizational process or policy changes. Recommend organizational process or policy changes.
#7561 · Core · 45% automatable
Analyze job requirements and content to establish criteria for classification, selection, training, and other related personnel functions.
interpersonal — Org behavior research needs human subjects and judgment
Conduct scientific research of organizational behavior or processes.
#7564 · Core · 62% automatable
Advise management concerning personnel, managerial, and marketing policies and practices and their potential effects on organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
decision support — Drafts advice; accountability and context owned by human
Advise others on business or operational matters.
#20222 · Core · 72% automatable
Conduct presentations on research findings for clients or at research meetings.
text generation — Reports drafted; presentations need human delivery
Prepare scientific or technical reports or presentations.
#20229 · Core · 35% automatable
Coach senior executives and managers on leadership and performance.
interpersonal — Mental health counseling needs trust and accountability
Counsel clients on mental health or personal achievement.
#20225 · Core · 40% automatable
Conduct individual assessments, including interpreting measures and providing feedback for selection, placement, or promotion.
interpersonal — Proctoring and standardized administration need human presence
Administer standardized physical or psychological tests.
#20228 · Core · 40% automatable
Train clients to administer human resources functions, including testing, selection, and performance management.
interpersonal — Technical procedure training needs live demonstration and correction
Train personnel in technical or scientific procedures.
#7569 · Core · 55% automatable
Assess employee performance.
decision support — Performance review aided; accountability and context human
Evaluate employee performance. Evaluate performance of applicants, trainees, or employees.
#7565 · Core · 57% automatable
Identify training and development needs.
decision support — Capability assessment aided by records, human decides
Evaluate capabilities or training needs. Develop educational or training programs.
#7567 · Core · 50% automatable
Formulate and implement training programs, applying principles of learning and individual differences.
decision support — Drafts program outlines; institutional design and approval human
Develop educational programs.
#7570 · Core · 45% automatable
Study organizational effectiveness, productivity, and efficiency, including the nature of workplace supervision and leadership.
interpersonal — Org behavior research needs human subjects and judgment
Conduct scientific research of organizational behavior or processes.
#20223 · Core · 15% automatable
Provide expert testimony in employment lawsuits.
interpersonal — Testimony carries legal accountability and live presence
Testify at legal or legislative proceedings.
#7566 · Core · 45% automatable
Conduct research studies of physical work environments, organizational structures, communication systems, group interactions, morale, or motivation to assess organizational functioning.
interpersonal — Org behavior research needs human subjects and judgment
Conduct scientific research of organizational behavior or processes.
#20227 · Core · 50% automatable
Develop new business by contacting potential clients, making sales presentations, and writing proposals.
interpersonal — Client information exchange is live relational work
Confer with clients to exchange information.
#7563 · Core · 72% automatable
Write reports on research findings and implications to contribute to general knowledge or to suggest potential changes in organizational functioning.
text generation — Reports drafted; presentations need human delivery
Prepare scientific or technical reports or presentations.
#20226 · Core · 72% automatable
Write articles, white papers, or reports to share research findings and educate others.
text generation — Reports drafted; presentations need human delivery
Prepare scientific or technical reports or presentations.
#20224 · Core · 82% automatable
Review research literature to remain current on psychological science issues.
information retrieval — AI can search and summarize literature, human curates
Review professional literature to maintain professional knowledge.
#7573 · Core · 35% automatable
Counsel workers about job and career-related issues.
interpersonal — Mental health counseling needs trust and accountability
Counsel clients on mental health or personal achievement.
#7575 · Supplemental · 30% automatable
Participate in mediation and dispute resolution.
interpersonal — Mediation requires live facilitation and trust
Mediate disputes.
#7574 · Supplemental · 30% automatable
Study consumers' reactions to new products and package designs, and to advertising efforts, using surveys and tests.
interpersonal — Observation and interviews are inherently human
Collect information from people through observation, interviews, or surveys.
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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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