All occupations › Education & libraryCan AI Replace Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary in 2026? Moderate exposure. AI could handle about 71% of today's recreation and fitness studies teachers, postsecondary tasks by 2036, and there is a 39% 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
15% 2030 · 39% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 24% 2027: 26% 2028: 29% 2029: 34% 2030: 40% 2031: 47% 2032: 54% 2033: 61% 2034: 65% 2035: 69% 2036: 71% 40% 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: 89 2033: 87 2034: 85 2035: 84 2036: 83 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 Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions. 2 Participate in campus and community events. 3 Prepare students to act as sports coaches. 4 Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers. 5 Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others. 6 Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks. 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 Write grant proposals to procure external research funding. 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: "Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers". Get visibly better at your human core: "Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 24 O*NET tasks for "Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary" (SOC 25-1193.00). LLM alone: 28% of tasks; with AI tools: 84%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
