All occupations › Education & libraryCan AI Replace Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary in 2026? Lower exposure. AI could handle about 54% of today's nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary tasks by 2036, and there is a 27% 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 · 27% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 16% 2027: 18% 2028: 21% 2029: 24% 2030: 29% 2031: 35% 2032: 41% 2033: 46% 2034: 50% 2035: 52% 2036: 54% 29% 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: 92 2033: 90 2034: 89 2035: 88 2036: 88 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 Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work. 2 Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions. 3 Demonstrate patient care in clinical units of hospitals. 4 Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others. 5 Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory and clinic work, assignments, and papers. 6 Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as pharmacology, mental health nursing, and community health care practices. 7 Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts. 8 Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records. 9 Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments. 10 Conduct faculty performance evaluations. 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: "Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work". 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 29 O*NET tasks for "Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary" (SOC 25-1072.00). LLM alone: 16% of tasks; with AI tools: 65%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
