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How could AI change work?

Explore 44 jobs in 9 sectors. Move from the 2025 AI test results to a 2026 estimate. Watch each box change size and colour.

Some figures are estimates. Box sizes come from US wage records. The 2025 AI scores come from tests. The 2026 AI scores are estimates, not test results. How we made these estimates.

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2025 AI test results · 2024 wage data
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Total yearly wages for these 44 US jobs
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Average of the best AI test scores by job
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How do the jobs change?

Box size: total wages · Colour: AI score
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What you are seeing

Same jobs. New figures.

Each box is one job. Its size shows the total wages paid to people in that job. Select a box to see tasks linked to AI use in 2026 and the five tasks from the original study.

This chart does not show how many jobs AI might replace.

Wages

How much do these jobs pay in total?

—Using May 2024 wage data
—Using May 2025 wage data

Total wages = number of workers × average annual pay. This is not GDP or the value of work AI could do. We keep the original sector groups.

How to read this chart

2025 colours are test scores. The original GDPval study tested AI on 5 tasks for each job. We show the best score of 7 AI models. A score shows how often AI did as well as, or better than, a human expert.

2026 colours are estimates. There are no newer GDPval scores for each job. We used GPT-5.5's published overall score of 84.9% and Anthropic's 2026 task data to estimate scores by job. These estimates were not tested on the original tasks.

2026 tasks come from real AI use. We linked tasks from Claude chats to jobs using O*NET codes. AI, not human experts, rated how often Claude succeeded. Seeing a task in the data does not mean AI can do the whole job.

The slider moves smoothly between the two views. It does not show results measured between 2025 and 2026.

2025 GDPval study · 2026 overall AI score · Anthropic task data · O*NET · US wage data (BLS) · Full method and sources
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