All occupations › Education & libraryCan AI Replace Physics Teachers, Postsecondary in 2026? Moderate exposure. AI could handle about 59% of today's physics teachers, postsecondary tasks by 2036, and there is a 33% 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
14% 2030 · 33% 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: 25% 2030: 31% 2031: 38% 2032: 44% 2033: 50% 2034: 54% 2035: 58% 2036: 59% 31% 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: 95 2031: 93 2032: 91 2033: 89 2034: 87 2035: 86 2036: 86 95 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 Supervise students' laboratory work. 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 Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction. 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. 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: "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: Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 24 O*NET tasks for "Physics Teachers, Postsecondary" (SOC 25-1054.00). LLM alone: 12% of tasks; with AI tools: 72%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
