AI exposure Management
Will AI replace architectural and engineering managers?
Architectural and Engineering Managers. US occupation 11-9041.
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3.1%
of the time architectural and engineering managers spend on their work goes on tasks where AI is already being used to do that work.of architectural and engineering managers' working hours go on tasks AI has already started taking off their plate.
Ranked 297 of 756 US occupations. More exposed than 60% of them.Further along than 60% of them.
Per cent of working time Square-law scale
Average US job 7.7%
Around the middle of the pack.Keeping pace with the average job.
What AI already does for architectural and engineering managersWhat architectural and engineering managers no longer do alone
O*NET lists 37 tasks for architectural and engineering managers. AI use at work shows up in 1 of them. Each score runs from 0.5, where every observed use helps a person with the task, to 1, where every use does the task outright.
- Present and explain proposals, reports, or findings to clients.Core task automated and assisted 0.72
What it does not touch, yetWhat still needs a human
36 of the 37 tasks show no AI use at work in the data.
- Analyze data from biofuels studies, such as fluid dynamics, water treatments, or solvent extraction and recovery processes.Core task
- Assess project feasibility by analyzing technology, resource needs, or market demand.Core task
- Conduct experiments on biomass or pretreatment technologies.Core task
- Conduct experiments to test new or alternate feedstock fermentation processes.Core task
- Confer with management, production, or marketing staff to discuss project specifications or procedures.Core task
- Consult or negotiate with clients to prepare project specifications.Core task
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- Design or conduct applied biodiesel or biofuels research projects on topics, such as transport, thermodynamics, mixing, filtration, distillation, fermentation, extraction, and separation.Core task
- Develop lab scale models of industrial scale processes, such as fermentation.Core task
- Develop or implement policies, standards, or procedures for engineering and technical work.Core task
- Develop or implement programs to improve sustainability or reduce the environmental impacts of engineering or architecture activities or operations.Core task
- Direct recruitment, placement, and evaluation of architecture or engineering project staff.Core task
- Direct, review, or approve project design changes.Core task
- Establish scientific or technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management.Core task
- Evaluate the environmental impacts of engineering, architecture, or research and development activities.Core task
- Manage the coordination and overall integration of technical activities in architecture or engineering projects.Core task
- Oversee biodiesel/biofuels prototyping or development projects.Core task
- Perform administrative functions, such as reviewing or writing reports, approving expenditures, enforcing rules, or purchasing of materials or services.Core task
- Prepare biofuels research and development reports for senior management or technical professionals.Core task
- Prepare budgets, bids, or contracts.Core task
- Prepare, or oversee the preparation of, experimental plans for biofuels research or development.Core task
- Propose new biofuels products, processes, technologies or applications based on findings from applied biofuels or biomass research projects.Core task
- Provide technical or scientific guidance to technical staff in the conduct of biofuels research or development.Core task
- Review, recommend, or approve contracts or cost estimates.Core task
- Conduct research to breed or develop energy crops with improved biomass yield, environmental adaptability, pest resistance, production efficiency, bioprocessing characteristics, or reduced environmental impacts.
- Design chemical conversion processes, such as etherification, esterification, interesterification, transesterification, distillation, hydrogenation, oxidation or reduction of fats and oils, and vegetable oil refining.
- Design or execute solvent or product recovery experiments in laboratory or field settings.
- Develop computational tools or approaches to improve biofuels research and development activities.
- Develop methods to estimate the efficiency of biomass pretreatments.
- Develop methods to recover ethanol or other fuels from complex bioreactor liquid and gas streams.
- Develop separation processes to recover biofuels.
- Evaluate environmental regulations or social pressures related to environmental issues to inform strategic or operational decision-making.
- Identify environmental threats or opportunities associated with the development and launch of new technologies.
- Perform protein functional analysis and engineering for processing of feedstock and creation of biofuels.
- Plan or direct the installation, testing, operation, maintenance, or repair of facilities or equipment.
- Plan, direct, or coordinate survey work with other project activities.
- Solicit project support by conferring with officials or providing information to the public.
How that compares
Among the 35 management occupations, architectural and engineering managers rank 24. The group averages 9.8%, and its most exposed job is Financial Managers at 39.1%. The average US occupation sits at 7.7%.
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What this does and does not mean
Exposure is observed use, not a forecast. Anthropic maps work conversations with Claude onto the tasks O*NET lists for each job and asks, of the tasks AI could speed up, which are actually being used for at work. A use that does the task outright counts in full and a use that assists a person counts half. The task scores are averaged into the occupation figure by the share of time spent on each task.
A high figure means AI is already part of how this work gets done. It does not mean anyone has been replaced. Anthropic's own reading of the labour market finds no systematic rise in unemployment among exposed workers so far, and about 14% fewer 22 to 25 year olds starting exposed jobs.No measurable rise in unemployment among exposed workers so far, and about 14% fewer 22 to 25 year olds starting these jobs. Gap years for everyone. Labor market impacts, 5 March 2026.
Task list and titles from O*NET 31.0 by the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, used under the CC BY 4.0 licence. Scores from the Anthropic Economic Index (CC BY). Checked 1 November 2026. How the ranking works.