Will AI replace Athletes and Sports Competitors?
AI reaches little of this job’s work.
0/100
Low exposure
More exposed to AI than 2% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 0% of the work
What the job involves
Compete in athletic events.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Out of reach(9)
- Maintain equipment used in a particular sport.
- Assess performance following athletic competition, identifying strengths and weaknesses and making adjustments to improve future performance.
- Participate in athletic events or competitive sports, according to established rules and regulations.
- Maintain optimum physical fitness levels by training regularly, following nutrition plans, or consulting with health professionals.
- Attend scheduled practice or training sessions.
and 4 more
Also called
Baseball Player · Basketball Player · Hockey Player · Professional Athlete · Automobile Racer (Auto Racer) · Auto Racer · Cyclist · Football Player
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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