All occupations › Healthcare practitionersCan AI Replace Occupational Therapists in 2026? Lower exposure. AI could handle about 41% of today's occupational therapists tasks by 2036, and there is a 8% 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 Headcount (2025 = 100)
101
Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
7% 2030 · 8% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
1.4 roles
0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 12% 2027: 14% 2028: 16% 2029: 18% 2030: 22% 2031: 26% 2032: 31% 2033: 34% 2034: 37% 2035: 39% 2036: 41% 22% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 101 2027: 101 2028: 101 2029: 101 2030: 101 2031: 100 2032: 100 2033: 100 2034: 99 2035: 100 2036: 100 101 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 Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate those impaired because of illness,… 2 Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps. 3 Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities. 4 Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs. 5 Conduct research in occupational therapy. 6 Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement. 7 Complete and maintain necessary records. 8 Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress. Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Complete and maintain necessary records". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs". Get visibly better at your human core: "Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate those impaired because of illness,…". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Based on 17 O*NET tasks for "Occupational Therapists" (SOC 29-1122.00). LLM alone: 12% of tasks; with AI tools: 49%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
