AI exposure: Residential Advisors
Coordinate activities in resident facilities in secondary school and college dormitories, group homes, or similar establishments. Order supplies and determine need for maintenance, repairs, and furnishings. May maintain household records and assign rooms. May assist residents with problem solving or refer them to counseling resources.
Reading this score
computedAt 29.5% of weighted task load, Residential Advisors sits at the 52th percentile, below the point where a job's centre of gravity has moved. 52.7% of what this role does is untouched, meaning current systems cannot produce that work at all, whatever the commercial incentive.
What holds the line here is presence. Across this occupation's 30 tasks it averages 1.64 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, a person has to be the one present. This is the friction software does not erode. Where the point of the act is that a human is there, to care or to witness or to take responsibility in the room, automating the output misses what was being paid for.
The most exposed thing this job does is Assign rooms to students, at 93.3%. The least is Inventory, pack, and remove items left behind by former residents, at 0.0%. A gap of 93.3% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.
Within personal care and service occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 31 roles in the group is 23.4%, and only 11 of them score higher than this. Occupational families are not uniform, and the spread inside them is often wider than the gap between them.
What would move this score. Of 30 tasks, 14 are currently banded exposed, 2 assisted and 14 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take systems being given deeper access to the organisation's own records and history, which is already happening. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
Where the score comes from
judgedEvery task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.
| Dimension | Mean | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 1.87 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 1.34 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 1.64 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.93 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.63 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.17 | 0-3 |
Task by task
30 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assign rooms to students. | 93.3% | 6.7% | 0.0% | 3.54 | exposed |
| Order supplies for facilities. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 3.29 | exposed |
| Compile information such as residents' daily activities and the quantities of supplies used to prepare required reports. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.70 | exposed |
| Process contract cancellations for students who are unable to follow residence hall policies and procedures. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.73 | exposed |
| Provide requested information on students' progress and the development of case plans. | 66.7% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 3.89 | exposed |
| Develop program plans for individuals or assist in plan development. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 3.97 | exposed |
| Collaborate with counselors to develop counseling programs that address the needs of individual students. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.03 | exposed |
| Confer with medical personnel to better understand the backgrounds and needs of individual residents. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.80 | exposed |
| Answer telephones, and route calls or deliver messages. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.79 | exposed |
| Oversee departmental budget. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.92 | exposed |
| Communicate with other staff to resolve problems with individual students. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 4.57 | exposed |
| Hold regular meetings with each assigned unit. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 3.72 | exposed |
| Determine the need for facility maintenance and repair, and notify appropriate personnel. | 28.3% | 21.7% | 50.0% | 4.06 | exposed |
| Develop and coordinate educational programs for residents. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 4.00 | exposed |
| Supervise, train, and evaluate residence hall staff, including resident assistants, participants in work-study programs, and other student workers. | 24.4% | 25.6% | 50.0% | 4.35 | assisted |
| Direct and participate in on- and off-campus recreational activities for residents of institutions, boarding schools, fraternities or sororities, children's homes, or similar establishments. | 23.3% | 26.7% | 50.0% | 3.48 | assisted |
| Supervise students' housekeeping work to ensure that it is done properly. | 13.3% | 11.7% | 75.0% | 3.74 | untouched |
| Supervise the activities of housekeeping personnel. | 13.3% | 11.7% | 75.0% | 3.66 | untouched |
| Make regular rounds to ensure that residents and areas are safe and secure. | 8.3% | 16.7% | 75.0% | 4.27 | untouched |
| Observe students to detect and report unusual behavior. | 6.7% | 18.3% | 75.0% | 4.44 | untouched |
| Mediate interpersonal problems between residents. | 6.7% | 18.3% | 75.0% | 4.24 | untouched |
| Enforce rules and regulations to ensure the smooth and orderly operation of dormitory programs. | 6.7% | 18.3% | 75.0% | 4.14 | untouched |
| Counsel students in the handling of issues such as family, financial, and educational problems. | 6.7% | 18.3% | 75.0% | 3.77 | untouched |
| Provide emergency first aid and summon medical assistance when necessary. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.34 | untouched |
| Administer, coordinate, or recommend disciplinary and corrective actions. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.80 | untouched |
| Chaperone group-sponsored trips and social functions. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.40 | untouched |
| Accompany and supervise students during meals. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.71 | untouched |
| Provide transportation or escort for expeditions, such as shopping trips or visits to doctors or dentists. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.54 | untouched |
| Sort and distribute mail. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.14 | untouched |
| Inventory, pack, and remove items left behind by former residents. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 2.75 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
Occupations either side of this one
The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.
Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.
What this means in practice
Most of this work is not reachable by current systems, so the immediate pressure is on the administrative edges of the role rather than its core: the scheduling, the reporting, the written records. That is where time is recovered.