All occupations › Education & libraryCan AI Replace Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary in 2026? Moderate exposure. AI could handle about 67% of today's mathematical science teachers, postsecondary tasks by 2036, and there is a 36% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI is likely to take over many tasks outright.
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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: 24% 2027: 26% 2028: 29% 2029: 33% 2030: 39% 2031: 45% 2032: 52% 2033: 57% 2034: 62% 2035: 65% 2036: 67% 39% 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: 90 2033: 88 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 Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students. 2 Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions. 3 Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues. 4 Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others. 5 Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers. 6 Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. 7 Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records. 8 Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts. 9 Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments. 10 Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as linear algebra, differential equations, and discrete mathematics. 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: "Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 24 O*NET tasks for "Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary" (SOC 25-1022.00). LLM alone: 30% of tasks; with AI tools: 78%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
