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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Intelligence Analysts?
Task-level automation exposure for Intelligence Analysts: 21 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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53%
weighted task index
21 of 21 tasks scored
Median Salary
$93,790 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
High
114,430 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+0.2%
employment change
7,800 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 52 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$54,500 – $160,760
Highest medians
District of Columbia $160,760
Maryland $126,730
California $124,840
Delaware $122,050
New Jersey $116,300
Lowest medians
Arkansas $54,500
Mississippi $58,640
Louisiana $60,450
South Carolina $62,760
North Carolina $63,280
State figures come from the 33-3021 row in the May 2025 state panel. States where the estimate was suppressed or too small to publish are absent.
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 53%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 5%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 9%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 15%
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 13/100
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
21 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) 28%
6 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 51%
10 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 20%
5 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 08/2024 · Occupational Expert
Make recommendations for investigations and subpoenas.
Constituent Tasks
#17555 · Core · 58% automatable
Validate known intelligence with data from other sources.
data analysis — Record screening aided, investigative judgment human
Examine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities.
#17549 · Core · 70% automatable
Gather, analyze, correlate, or evaluate information from a variety of resources, such as law enforcement databases.
information retrieval — Database queries for investigation details
Examine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities. Use databases to locate investigation details or other information.
#17546 · Core · 58% automatable
Evaluate records of communications, such as telephone calls, to plot activity and determine the size and location of criminal groups and members.
data analysis — Record screening aided, investigative judgment human
Examine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities.
#17548 · Core · 39% automatable
Gather intelligence information by field observation, confidential information sources, or public records.
data analysis — Record screening aided, investigative judgment human
Examine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities. Observe individuals' activities to gather information or compile evidence.
#21199 · Core · 58% automatable
Analyze intelligence data to identify patterns and trends in criminal activity.
data analysis — Record screening aided, investigative judgment human
Examine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities.
#17552 · Core · 72% automatable
Prepare comprehensive written reports, presentations, maps, or charts, based on research, collection, and analysis of intelligence data.
text generation — Incident reports drafted from facts; human reviews
Prepare investigation or incident reports.
#17556 · Core · 45% automatable
Collaborate with representatives from other government and intelligence organizations to share information or coordinate intelligence activities.
interpersonal — Law enforcement info sharing needs trusted humans
Collaborate with law enforcement or security agencies to share information.
#17550 · Core · 30% automatable
Link or chart suspects to criminal organizations or events to determine activities and interrelationships.
decision support — Investigation is human fieldwork with judgment
Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.
#17545 · Core · 62% automatable
Establish criminal profiles to aid in connecting criminal organizations with their members.
text generation — Suspect records drafted; human verifies and owns
Record information about suspects or criminals.
#23997 · Core · 58% automatable
Identify gaps in information.
data analysis — Record screening aided, investigative judgment human
Examine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities.
#17544 · Core · 82% automatable
Design, use, or maintain databases and software applications, such as geographic information systems (GIS) mapping and artificial intelligence tools.
information retrieval — Database queries for investigation details
Use databases to locate investigation details or other information.
#17542 · Core · 58% automatable
Predict future gang, organized crime, or terrorist activity, using analyses of intelligence data.
data analysis — Record screening aided, investigative judgment human
Examine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities.
#17543 · Core · 30% automatable
Study activities relating to narcotics, money laundering, gangs, auto theft rings, terrorism, or other national security threats.
decision support — Investigation is human fieldwork with judgment
Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.
#17554 · Core · 30% automatable
Study the assets of criminal suspects to determine the flow of money from or to targeted groups.
decision support — Investigation is human fieldwork with judgment
Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.
#21200 · Core · 55% automatable
Conduct presentations of analytic findings.
interpersonal — Presentation delivery and Q&A are human; AI drafts slides
Present research results to others.
#17557 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Develop defense plans or tactics, using intelligence and other information.
decision support — Procedures drafted; human validates feasibility
Determine operational procedures.
#17558 · Supplemental · 20% automatable
Interview, interrogate, or interact with witnesses or crime suspects to collect human intelligence.
interpersonal — Criminal interviews need human judgment and presence
Interview people to gather information about criminal activities.
#17553 · Supplemental · 64% automatable
Prepare plans to intercept foreign communications transmissions.
decision support — Procedure drafting aided; context-specific validation human
Plan work procedures. Develop technical methods or processes.
#17559 · Supplemental · 70% automatable
Study communication code languages or foreign languages to translate intelligence.
information retrieval — AI supports study; certification requires human
Maintain professional knowledge or certifications.
#17547 · Supplemental · 42% automatable
Gather and evaluate information, using tools such as aerial photographs, radar equipment, or sensitive radio equipment.
data analysis — Record screening aided, investigative judgment human
Examine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities. Operate surveillance equipment to detect suspicious or illegal activities.
#17551 · Supplemental · 25% automatable
Operate cameras, radios, or other surveillance equipment to intercept communications or document activities.
visual inspection — Surveillance monitoring partly AI, physical setup human
Operate surveillance equipment to detect suspicious or illegal activities.
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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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