AI Automation Index

Will AI Replace Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers?

Task-level automation exposure for Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers: 16 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.

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Automation Exposure

55% weighted task index

16 of 16 tasks scored

Median Salary

$76,910 / year

BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation

Employment Level

Medium

47,940 people hold this job — size, not growth

Projected 2025–35

-0.3% employment change

11,900 openings a year · BLS line item

Pay by state

BLS OEWS publishes 44 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.

$43,440 – $129,300

Highest medians

District of Columbia $129,300

Maryland $104,330

Connecticut $98,460

Vermont $94,430

Louisiana $89,520

Lowest medians

Puerto Rico $43,440

Arkansas $47,970

Kentucky $48,780

Wyoming $49,650

North Dakota $50,860

State figures come from the 27-3043 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 55%

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 33%

Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.

Routine administration 47%

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 5/100 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

16 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) 22%

3 tasks

Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 75%

12 tasks

Low exposure (below 35%) 3%

1 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.

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Constituent Tasks

#11051 · Core · 50% automatable

Write fiction or nonfiction prose, such as short stories, novels, biographies, articles, descriptive or critical analyses, and essays.

text generation — Creative drafting aided; artistic judgment human-owned

Write material for artistic or entertainment purposes.

#11052 · Core · 50% automatable

Develop factors such as themes, plots, characterizations, psychological analyses, historical environments, action, and dialogue to create material.

text generation — Creative drafting aided; artistic judgment human-owned

Write material for artistic or entertainment purposes.

#11046 · Core · 82% automatable

Revise written material to meet personal standards and to satisfy needs of clients, publishers, directors, or producers.

text generation — AI edits prose well; human owns voice and final judgment

Edit written materials.

#11047 · Core · 72% automatable

Choose subject matter and suitable form to express personal feelings and experiences or ideas, or to narrate stories or events.

text generation — Content selection aided; audience judgment human

Determine presentation subjects or content.

#11049 · Core · 50% automatable

Prepare works in appropriate format for publication, and send them to publishers or producers.

text generation — Creative drafting aided; artistic judgment human-owned

Write material for artistic or entertainment purposes.

#11054 · Core · 55% automatable

Conduct research to obtain factual information and authentic detail, using sources such as newspaper accounts, diaries, and interviews.

information retrieval — AI gathers references; creative synthesis is human

Conduct research to inform art, designs, or other work.

#11053 · Core · 58% automatable

Confer with clients, editors, publishers, or producers to discuss changes or revisions to written material.

interpersonal — Ongoing production discussion requires shared human context

Discuss production content and progress with others.

#11048 · Core · 40% automatable

Plan project arrangements or outlines, and organize material accordingly.

text generation — Creative drafting aided; artistic judgment human-owned

Write material for artistic or entertainment purposes. Coordinate artistic activities.

#11050 · Core · 45% automatable

Follow appropriate procedures to get copyrights for completed work.

decision support — Legal permissions need counsel and formal filings

Obtain copyrights or other legal permissions.

#11056 · Core · 55% automatable

Attend book launches and publicity events, or conduct public readings.

text generation — Promotional content drafted; human runs channels and relationships

Promote products, activities, or organizations.

#11055 · Supplemental · 50% automatable

Write narrative, dramatic, lyric, or other types of poetry for publication.

text generation — Creative drafting aided; artistic judgment human-owned

Write material for artistic or entertainment purposes.

#11057 · Supplemental · 50% automatable

Write words to fit musical compositions, including lyrics for operas, musical plays, and choral works.

text generation — Creative drafting aided; artistic judgment human-owned

Write material for artistic or entertainment purposes.

#11058 · Supplemental · 82% automatable

Adapt text to accommodate musical requirements of composers and singers.

text generation — AI edits prose well; human owns voice and final judgment

Edit written materials.

#11060 · Supplemental · 50% automatable

Write humorous material for publication, or for performances such as comedy routines, gags, and comedy shows.

text generation — Creative drafting aided; artistic judgment human-owned

Write material for artistic or entertainment purposes.

#11059 · Supplemental · 42% automatable

Teach writing classes.

interpersonal — Work-process coaching requires live human interaction

Train others on work processes.

#11061 · Supplemental · 20% automatable

Collaborate with other writers on specific projects.

interpersonal — Collaborative artistic production needs live human coordination

Collaborate with others to prepare or perform artistic productions.

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Method

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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