Actuary
Studies data about things like accidents, illness, and retirement to predict risks and figure out how much money is needed to pay future benefits.
Will AI replace actuary jobs?
AI changes jobs more often than it replaces them. How much AI can help with this work: Medium. More AI overlap than 55 in 100 jobs. AI helps with some tasks, like paperwork or first drafts. People still do the core of the job. 5% of this job’s working time is already spent on tasks people bring to AI at work (Anthropic Economic Index). Based on Microsoft research on real AI use at work, matched to the tasks of each job in O*NET.
What AI already helps with
- Advise clients as an outside consultant
- Build probability tables for events like fires, disasters, and job loss
- Study statistics to estimate rates of death, accidents, illness, and retirement
What stays human
- Study data to set insurance prices and money to keep in reserve
- Design, review, and help run insurance and pension plans and set prices
- Work with programmers, underwriters, and managers to plan new or better business
10-year outlook · USA
Expected change in the number of these jobs by 2035: +9.2%. Typical pay: $130,000 a year. US Bureau of Labor Statistics. German figures differ, but the direction is usually similar.
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