Will AI replace Animal Scientists?
AI reaches most of this job’s work.
85/100
Very high exposure
More exposed to AI than 100% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 95% of the work
What the job involves
Conduct research in the genetics, nutrition, reproduction, growth, and development of domestic farm animals.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Within reach(8)
- Study nutritional requirements of animals and nutritive values of animal feed materials.
- Write up or orally communicate research findings to the scientific community, producers, and the public.
- Develop improved practices in feeding, housing, sanitation, or parasite and disease control of animals.
- Advise producers about improved products and techniques that could enhance their animal production efforts.
- Conduct research concerning animal nutrition, breeding, or management to improve products or processes.
and 3 more
Out of reach(1)
- Crossbreed animals with existing strains or cross strains to obtain new combinations of desirable characteristics.
Also called
Dairy Scientist · Poultry Scientist · Animal Nutritionist · Animal Scientist · Beef Cattle Nutritionist · Sericulturist · Swine Genetics Researcher · Animal Nutrition Consultant
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics