ROLEOAK · CAREER INSIGHTS
AI is changing tasks, skills and career plans. Get beyond the headlines: understand what the evidence says, explore your own work, and plan a practical next step.
RESEARCH & NEWS
Primary sources and original RoleOak summaries, with their source dates. Human-reviewed briefs, not an automatic news feed.
RESEARCH
Source published: 2026-04-17
The ILO explains why tasks that AI could automate are not the same as jobs that employers will remove.
Source: International Labour Organization
Read analysis →RESEARCH
Source published: 2026-05-26
A new capability-gap measure separates information-processing tasks from work requiring judgment, social skills and responsibility.
Source: OECD
Read analysis →ANALYSIS
Source published: 2025-05-20
An ILO assessment of tasks across occupations highlights clerical work while noting changes in technical and professional roles.
Source: International Labour Organization
Read analysis →ROLEOAK ANALYSIS
The ILO's 2025 global study estimated that one in four workers were in occupations with some exposure to generative AI. That is an estimate of exposure to AI capability, not one in four jobs disappearing.
A report that estimates future job growth or decline is making a different kind of claim. For example, the World Economic Forum's 2030 jobs outlook covers several forces, including technology, demographics, economic change and the green transition. It must not be presented as an AI-only forecast.
For an individual, a better question is which parts of the working week may change, which still require human responsibility and what skills would help them adapt.
OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH
Compare clerical, finance, programming and hands-on care tasks using named ILO and OECD sources.
See what published research says about task exposure, which human responsibilities remain and where studies have limits.
TASK EXPOSURE EXPLORER
Use your own task list. No CV upload, account, personal details or AI service required.
INTERACTIVE · NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
List the tasks you do in a normal week, the hours each takes, and your own estimate of how much of each task AI could help with.
Calculated in your browser. Your answers are not submitted to RoleOak.
Example values are shown to demonstrate the calculation. They are assumptions, not researched occupation scores. Replace them with your own work.
Estimated AI-assistable share of your tasks
32.5%
Equivalent task-hours involving potential AI support
13.0 of 40.0 hrs/week
For every task: task hours × your AI-assistance estimate ÷ 100. Add those assisted hours, then divide by your total task hours to get the percentage.
Important: This is not the probability of losing a job, time saved, or a forecast of replacement. AI assistance can still require human review, responsibility and judgement. The result changes when you change your assumptions.
WHAT NEXT?
Review one task you could do better with AI, one human skill worth strengthening and one career option you want to explore.
Research selection reviewed 30 October 2026. Links lead to the original publishers. RoleOak does not claim these articles are the latest available on every AI-and-work topic.
