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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Psychiatrists?
Task-level automation exposure for Psychiatrists: 12 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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44%
weighted task index
12 of 12 tasks scored
Median Salary
$281,870 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Medium
27,980 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+7.2%
employment change
900 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 46 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$63,320 – $353,500
Highest medians
California $353,500
Louisiana $345,040
Alaska $342,170
Minnesota $336,410
Wisconsin $331,070
Lowest medians
West Virginia $63,320
Idaho $75,470
Arkansas $124,750
Nebraska $135,180
North Carolina $168,880
State figures come from the 29-1223 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 44%
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 58%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 23%
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 25/100
Moderate
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
12 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) 14%
2 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 67%
8 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 19%
2 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 07/2014 · Incumbent
Perform mental health evaluations to provide information to courts of law on patients' mental states.
- New 08/2026 · Incumbent
Teach and supervise medical students, residents, and nurse practitioners.
Constituent Tasks
#1828 · Core · 21% automatable
Prescribe, direct, or administer psychotherapeutic treatments or medications to treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders.
decision support — Prescribing therapy requires licensed clinical accountability
Treat patients using psychological therapies. Prescribe treatments or therapies. Prescribe medications.
#1830 · Core · 46% automatable
Gather and maintain patient information and records, including social or medical history obtained from patients, relatives, or other professionals.
interpersonal — Patient history requires live elicitation and judgment
Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals. Record patient medical histories.
#1829 · Core · 40% automatable
Collaborate with physicians, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, or other professionals to discuss treatment plans and progress.
interpersonal — Treatment planning collaboration is accountable clinical work
Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
#1831 · Core · 55% automatable
Counsel outpatients or other patients during office visits.
decision support — Treatment-effect advice needs clinical tailoring
Advise patients on effects of health conditions or treatments.
#1827 · Core · 58% automatable
Analyze and evaluate patient data or test findings to diagnose nature or extent of mental disorder.
visual inspection — Image interpretation assists; radiologist owns diagnosis
Analyze test data or images to inform diagnosis or treatment.
#1833 · Core · 12% automatable
Examine or conduct laboratory or diagnostic tests on patients to provide information on general physical condition or mental disorder.
visual inspection — Patient physical assessment is hands-on clinical work
Examine patients to assess general physical condition.
#1832 · Core · 38% automatable
Design individualized care plans, using a variety of treatments.
decision support — Medical plans need exam, liability, and clinical judgment
Develop medical treatment plans.
#1834 · Core · 40% automatable
Advise or inform guardians, relatives, or significant others of patients' conditions or treatment.
interpersonal — Results delivery needs empathy and clinical judgment
Explain medical procedures or test results to patients or family members.
#15230 · Core · 56% automatable
Teach, take continuing education classes, attend conferences or seminars, or conduct research and publish findings to increase understanding of mental, emotional, or behavioral states or disorders.
information retrieval — AI summarizes medical updates; human retains judgment
Conduct research to increase knowledge about medical issues. Maintain medical or professional knowledge. Present medical research reports.
#1835 · Core · 68% automatable
Review and evaluate treatment procedures and outcomes of other psychiatrists or medical professionals.
data analysis — Quantitative treatment efficacy analysis; researcher verifies
Analyze quantitative data to determine effectiveness of treatments or therapies.
#1837 · Core · 68% automatable
Prepare and submit case reports or summaries to government or mental health agencies.
text generation — Health records drafted; clinician verifies and signs
Prepare official health documents or records. Prepare reports summarizing patient diagnostic or care activities.
#1838 · Core · 35% automatable
Serve on committees to promote or maintain community mental health services or delivery systems.
interpersonal — Committee service requires presence, negotiation, accountability
Serve on institutional or departmental committees.
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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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