All occupations › Education & libraryCan AI Replace Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary in 2026? Moderate exposure. AI could handle about 63% of today's teaching assistants, postsecondary tasks by 2036, and there is a 30% 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
13% 2030 · 30% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 24% 2027: 26% 2028: 28% 2029: 32% 2030: 37% 2031: 43% 2032: 49% 2033: 54% 2034: 58% 2035: 61% 2036: 63% 37% 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: 90 2034: 88 2035: 88 2036: 87 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 Lead discussion sections, tutorials, or laboratory sections. 2 Schedule and maintain regular office hours to meet with students. 3 Copy and distribute classroom materials. 4 Evaluate and grade examinations, assignments, or papers, and record grades. 5 Prepare or proctor examinations. 6 Teach undergraduate-level courses. 7 Develop teaching materials, such as syllabi, visual aids, answer keys, supplementary notes, or course Web sites. 8 Inform students of the procedures for completing and submitting class work, such as lab reports. 9 Return assignments to students in accordance with established deadlines. 10 Notify instructors of errors or problems with 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: "Develop teaching materials, such as syllabi, visual aids, answer keys, supplementary notes, or course Web sites". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Evaluate and grade examinations, assignments, or papers, and record grades". Get visibly better at your human core: "Lead discussion sections, tutorials, or laboratory sections". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Substitute Teachers, Short-Term. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 20 O*NET tasks for "Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary" (SOC 25-9044.00). LLM alone: 33% of tasks; with AI tools: 73%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
