Will AI replace Chief Sustainability Officers?
AI reaches some of this job’s work, but most of it stays with people.
39/100
Moderate exposure
More exposed to AI than 63% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 73% of the work
What the job involves
Communicate and coordinate with management, shareholders, customers, and employees to address sustainability issues. Enact or oversee a corporate sustainability strategy.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Within reach(13)
- Develop or execute strategies to address issues such as energy use, resource conservation, recycling, pollution reduction, waste elimination, transportation, education, and building design.
- Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of sustainability programs.
- Develop sustainability reports, presentations, or proposals for supplier, employee, academia, media, government, public interest, or other groups.
- Develop, or oversee the development of, marketing or outreach media for sustainability projects or events.
- Create and maintain sustainability program documents, such as schedules and budgets.
and 8 more
Out of reach(5)
- Develop, or oversee the development of, sustainability evaluation or monitoring systems.
- Supervise employees or volunteers working on sustainability projects.
- Identify educational, training, or other development opportunities for sustainability employees or volunteers.
- Direct sustainability program operations to ensure compliance with environmental or governmental regulations.
- Conduct risk assessments related to sustainability and the environment.
Also called
Sustainability Manager · Sustainability Director · Sustainable Design Director · Energy and Sustainability Manager · Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) · Corporate Sustainability Process Manager · CSR and Sustainability VP (Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Vice President) · Sustainability Chancellor
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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