All occupations › Education & libraryCan AI Replace Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary in 2026? Moderate exposure. AI could handle about 66% of today's biological science teachers, postsecondary tasks by 2036, and there is a 38% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI both assists and takes over tasks.
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Timeline Year 2030 Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
15% 2030 · 38% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 18% 2027: 20% 2028: 24% 2029: 28% 2030: 35% 2031: 42% 2032: 49% 2033: 56% 2034: 60% 2035: 64% 2036: 66% 35% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 100 2027: 99 2028: 98 2029: 96 2030: 94 2031: 92 2032: 89 2033: 87 2034: 86 2035: 85 2036: 84 94 Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line) Your survival map Not every part of your job is at the same risk. Tap a number to see what to do about each task.
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1 Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions. 2 Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students. 3 Provide students course-related experiences, such as field trips, outside the classroom. 4 Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory work, assignments, and papers. 5 Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others. 6 Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as molecular biology, marine biology, and botany. 7 Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records. 8 Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments. 9 Prepare materials for laboratory activities and course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts. 10 Review papers for publication in journals. Lower-risk jobs that use similar skills Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory work, assignments, and papers". Get visibly better at your human core: "Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 27 O*NET tasks for "Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary" (SOC 25-1042.00). LLM alone: 14% of tasks; with AI tools: 80%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
