All occupations › Education & libraryCan AI Replace Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary in 2026? Moderate exposure. AI could handle about 71% of today's computer science teachers, postsecondary tasks by 2036, and there is a 41% 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 · 41% 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 20% 2027: 22% 2028: 26% 2029: 31% 2030: 38% 2031: 46% 2032: 53% 2033: 60% 2034: 65% 2035: 69% 2036: 71% 38% 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: 91 2032: 89 2033: 87 2034: 85 2035: 84 2036: 83 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 Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues. 2 Participate in campus and community events. 3 Maintain computer equipment used in instruction. 4 Compile, administer, and grade examinations or assign this work to others. 5 Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory work, assignments, and papers. 6 Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences. 7 Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts. 8 Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records. 9 Develop and maintain Web sites for online courses. 10 Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments. 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: "Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts". 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: "Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 26 O*NET tasks for "Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary" (SOC 25-1021.00). LLM alone: 17% of tasks; with AI tools: 86%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
