All occupations › Life, physical & social scienceCan AI Replace Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health in 2026? Lower exposure. AI could handle about 57% of today's environmental science and protection technicians, including health tasks by 2036, and there is a 25% 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
12% 2030 · 25% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
1.6 roles
0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 20% 2027: 21% 2028: 24% 2029: 28% 2030: 33% 2031: 38% 2032: 44% 2033: 49% 2034: 52% 2035: 55% 2036: 57% 33% 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: 96 2031: 94 2032: 93 2033: 91 2034: 90 2035: 89 2036: 89 96 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 Investigate hazardous conditions or spills or outbreaks of disease or food poisoning, collecting samples for analysis. 2 Calibrate microscopes or test instruments. 3 Collect samples of gases, soils, water, industrial wastewater, or asbestos products to conduct tests on pollutant levels or identify sources of pollution. 4 Maintain files, such as hazardous waste databases, chemical usage data, personnel exposure information, or diagrams showing equipment locations. 5 Provide information or technical or program assistance to government representatives, employers, or the general public on the issues of public health, environmental… 6 Analyze potential environmental impacts of production process changes, and recommend steps to mitigate negative impacts. 7 Record test data and prepare reports, summaries, or charts that interpret test results. 8 Perform statistical analysis of environmental data. 9 Distribute permits, closure plans, or cleanup plans. 10 Calculate amount of pollutant in samples or compute air pollution or gas flow in industrial processes, using chemical and mathematical formulas. 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: "Record test data and prepare reports, summaries, or charts that interpret test results". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Maintain files, such as hazardous waste databases, chemical usage data, personnel exposure information, or diagrams showing equipment locations". Get visibly better at your human core: "Investigate hazardous conditions or spills or outbreaks of disease or food poisoning, collecting samples for analysis". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Nuclear Monitoring Technicians. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 26 O*NET tasks for "Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health" (SOC 19-4042.00). LLM alone: 24% of tasks; with AI tools: 67%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
