As of June 2026, Data Scientist has an AI-exposure score of 56/100 (Elevated exposure) on the AI-Safe Careers index, blending O*NET tasks, the Anthropic Economic Index, the Penn/OpenAI study, and BLS data. This is an estimate of task exposure, not a prediction of job loss.
Data Scientist
More exposed than 50% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$108,020.
Pay & demand figures are US medians (BLS, in USD) — your local figures will differ. Your exposure score applies broadly.
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Your tasks, by AI exposure
No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (75%).
- Build and evaluate models
- Engineer features from data
- Recommend data-driven solutions to key stakeholders.
- Write new functions or applications in programming languages to conduct analyses.
- Test, validate, and reformulate models to ensure accurate prediction of outcomes of interest.
- Propose solutions in engineering, the sciences, and other fields using mathematical theories and techniques.
- Identify solutions to business problems, such as budgeting, staffing, and marketing decisions, using the results of data analysis.
- Identify business problems or management objectives that can be addressed through data analysis.
- Deliver oral or written presentations of the results of mathematical modeling and data analysis to management or other end users.
- Create graphs, charts, or other visualizations to convey the results of data analysis using specialized software.
- Compare models using statistical performance metrics, such as loss functions or proportion of explained variance.
- Clean and manipulate raw data using statistical software.
- Apply sampling techniques to determine groups to be surveyed or use complete enumeration methods.
- Apply feature selection algorithms to models predicting outcomes of interest, such as sales, attrition, and healthcare use.
- Analyze, manipulate, or process large sets of data using statistical software.
- Frame business problems
- Design surveys, opinion polls, or other instruments to collect data.
- Identify relationships and trends or any factors that could affect the results of research.
- Read scientific articles, conference papers, or other sources of research to identify emerging analytic trends and technologies.
- Communicate findings to leaders
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