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Education & Training · Updated Aug 2026

Curators

Administer collections, such as artwork, collectibles, historic items, or scientific specimens of museums or other institutions. May conduct instructional, research, or public service activities of institution.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
64/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
52/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence84/100
Task coverage90%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Develop and maintain an institution's registration, cataloging, and basic record-keeping systems, using computer databases.High
71
Provide information from the institution's holdings to other curators and to the public.Medium
75
Plan and conduct special research projects in area of interest or expertise.High
73
Train and supervise curatorial, fiscal, technical, research, and clerical staff, as well as volunteers or interns.Medium
68
Plan and organize the acquisition, storage, and exhibition of collections and related materials, including the selection of exhibition themes and designs, and develop or install exhibit materials.High
51
Design, organize, or conduct tours, workshops, and instructional or educational sessions to acquaint individuals with an institution's facilities and materials.Medium
73
Write and review grant proposals, journal articles, institutional reports, and publicity materials.Medium
74
Negotiate and authorize purchase, sale, exchange, or loan of collections.Medium
70
Attend meetings, conventions, and civic events to promote use of institution's services, to seek financing, and to maintain community alliances.Medium
75
Inspect premises to assess the need for repairs and to ensure that climate and pest control issues are addressed.Medium
37
Study, examine, and test acquisitions to authenticate their origin, composition, history, and to assess their current value.Medium
38
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Provide information from the institution's holdings to other curators and to the public.75
  2. Attend meetings, conventions, and civic events to promote use of institution's services, to seek financing, and to maintain community alliances.75
  3. Write and review grant proposals, journal articles, institutional reports, and publicity materials.74
  4. Plan and conduct special research projects in area of interest or expertise.73
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Inspect premises to assess the need for repairs and to ensure that climate and pest control issues are addressed.01
  2. Study, examine, and test acquisitions to authenticate their origin, composition, history, and to assess their current value.02
  3. Plan and organize the acquisition, storage, and exhibition of collections and related materials, including the selection of exhibition themes and designs, and develop or install exhibit materials.03
  4. Develop and maintain an institution's registration, cataloging, and basic record-keeping systems, using computer databases.04
  5. Provide information from the institution's holdings to other curators and to the public.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency77
Physical dependency43
Adoption pressure51
Labour-market resilience63
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence84/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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