Tech
Statistician
AI Risk Score 2026
0%
Your job is relatively safe — for now.
Oxford Martin School (2013)
22%
theoretical risk
Anthropic Index (2026)
21.1%
observed today
Combined score: Oxford Martin School (Frey & Osborne, 2013) weighted 40% + Anthropic Economic Index (2026) weighted 60%. Oxford score = theoretical automation potential. Anthropic score = observed AI usage across millions of professional Claude conversations.
Sector: Tech
What AI will do
- Running standard statistical tests on clean data
- Generating visualisations and reports
- Automating data cleaning pipelines
What keeps you human
- Study design and selection of appropriate methodology
- Interpreting results in their real-world context
- Communicating uncertainty to non-specialist audiences
Statistical analysis is increasingly automated by tools like R packages and AutoML. But the judgment behind study design, methodology selection, and result interpretation — especially in public health and policy contexts — remains deeply human and consequential.
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