AI exposure: Tutors
Instruct individual students or small groups of students in academic subjects to support formal class instruction or to prepare students for standardized or admissions tests.
Reading this score
computed39.1% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Tutors at the 69th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 2.5 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.
What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 19 tasks it averages 2.03 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.
The most exposed thing this job does is Organize tutoring environment to promote productivity and learning, at 86.7%. The least is Participate in training and development sessions to improve tutoring practices or learn new..., at 0.0%. A gap of 86.7% 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 educational instruction and library occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 42.4% across the group's 62 roles, with 38 scoring higher. Being in an exposed family does not make a particular job exposed, and the reverse holds too.
What would move this score. Of 19 tasks, 15 are currently banded exposed, 1 assisted and 3 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.
Task by task
19 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organize tutoring environment to promote productivity and learning. | 86.7% | 13.3% | 0.0% | 3.91 | exposed |
| Schedule tutoring appointments with students or their parents. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 3.95 | exposed |
| Prepare lesson plans or learning modules for tutoring sessions according to students' needs and goals. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.64 | exposed |
| Develop teaching or training materials, such as handouts, study materials, or quizzes. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.43 | exposed |
| Maintain records of students' assessment results, progress, feedback, or school performance, ensuring confidentiality of all records. | 66.7% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 3.83 | exposed |
| Assess students' progress throughout tutoring sessions. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 4.68 | exposed |
| Research or recommend textbooks, software, equipment, or other learning materials to complement tutoring. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 2.81 | exposed |
| Review class material with students by discussing text, working solutions to problems, or reviewing worksheets or other assignments. | 37.5% | 25.0% | 37.5% | 4.73 | exposed |
| Collaborate with students, parents, teachers, school administrators, or counselors to determine student needs, develop tutoring plans, or assess student progress. | 33.3% | 29.2% | 37.5% | 4.15 | exposed |
| Administer, proctor, or score academic or diagnostic assessments. | 33.3% | 29.2% | 37.5% | 2.92 | exposed |
| Teach students study skills, note-taking skills, and test-taking strategies. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 4.45 | exposed |
| Provide private instruction to individual or small groups of students to improve academic performance, improve occupational skills, or prepare for academic or occupational tests. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 4.45 | exposed |
| Monitor student performance or assist students in academic environments, such as classrooms, laboratories, or computing centers. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 4.14 | exposed |
| Prepare and facilitate tutoring workshops, collaborative projects, or academic support sessions for small groups of students. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 3.65 | exposed |
| Travel to students' homes, libraries, or schools to conduct tutoring sessions. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 3.29 | exposed |
| Identify, develop, or implement intervention strategies, tutoring plans, or individualized education plans (IEPs) for students. | 20.0% | 30.0% | 50.0% | 3.83 | assisted |
| Provide feedback to students, using positive reinforcement techniques to encourage, motivate, or build confidence in students. | 11.7% | 13.3% | 75.0% | 4.86 | untouched |
| Communicate students' progress to students, parents, or teachers in written progress reports, in person, by phone, or by email. | 10.0% | 15.0% | 75.0% | 3.89 | untouched |
| Participate in training and development sessions to improve tutoring practices or learn new tutoring techniques. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.18 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
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 | 2.50 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 0.61 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 1.45 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.97 | 0-3 |
| Context | 2.03 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.16 | 0-3 |
What this means in practice
Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.
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.