As of June 2026, Intelligence Analysts has an AI-exposure score of 66/100 (High 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.
Intelligence Analysts
More exposed than 83% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$93,790. About 7,800 projected openings a year (BLS 2024–34 — growth plus replacement).
Pay & demand figures are US medians (BLS, in USD) — your local figures will differ. Your exposure score applies broadly.
How you compare to similar Protective Service roles
Your tasks, by AI exposure
- Gather intelligence information by field observation, confidential information sources, or public records.
- Gather and evaluate information, using tools such as aerial photographs, radar equipment, or sensitive radio equipment.
- Gather, analyze, correlate, or evaluate information from a variety of resources, such as law enforcement databases.
- Evaluate records of communications, such as telephone calls, to plot activity and determine the size and location of criminal groups and members.
- Identify gaps in information.
- Establish criminal profiles to aid in connecting criminal organizations with their members.
- Develop defense plans or tactics, using intelligence and other information.
- Design, use, or maintain databases and software applications, such as geographic information systems (GIS) mapping and artificial intelligence tools.
- Collaborate with representatives from other government and intelligence organizations to share information or coordinate intelligence activities.
- Predict future gang, organized crime, or terrorist activity, using analyses of intelligence data.
- Validate known intelligence with data from other sources.
- Analyze intelligence data to identify patterns and trends in criminal activity.
- Interview, interrogate, or interact with witnesses or crime suspects to collect human intelligence.
- Link or chart suspects to criminal organizations or events to determine activities and interrelationships.
- Study activities relating to narcotics, money laundering, gangs, auto theft rings, terrorism, or other national security threats.
- Study the assets of criminal suspects to determine the flow of money from or to targeted groups.
- Conduct presentations of analytic findings.
- Prepare plans to intercept foreign communications transmissions.
- Study communication code languages or foreign languages to translate intelligence.
- Prepare comprehensive written reports, presentations, maps, or charts, based on research, collection, and analysis of intelligence data.
No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as automatable (65%).
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