All occupations › Education & libraryCan AI Replace Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary in 2026? Moderate exposure. AI could handle about 57% of today's chemistry teachers, postsecondary tasks by 2036, and there is a 30% 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
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 18% 2027: 19% 2028: 22% 2029: 26% 2030: 31% 2031: 38% 2032: 44% 2033: 49% 2034: 53% 2035: 56% 2036: 57% 31% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 100 2027: 99 2028: 98 2029: 97 2030: 95 2031: 93 2032: 91 2033: 89 2034: 88 2035: 87 2036: 87 95 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 Establish, teach, and monitor students' compliance with safety rules for handling chemicals, equipment, and other hazardous materials. 2 Supervise students' laboratory work. 3 Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students. 4 Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others. 5 Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, and chemical separation. 6 Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory performance, assignments, and papers. 7 Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records. 8 Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts. 9 Write letters of recommendation for students. 10 Prepare and submit required reports related to instruction. 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: "Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others". Get visibly better at your human core: "Establish, teach, and monitor students' compliance with safety rules for handling chemicals, equipment, and other hazardous materials". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 28 O*NET tasks for "Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary" (SOC 25-1052.00). LLM alone: 18% of tasks; with AI tools: 69%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
