Automatable

A task performed by Computer and Information Research Scientists

Evaluate project plans and proposals to assess feasibility issues.

Green LightWorkers want it · AI can do it

Likely yes, and the people who do it want it gone. Workers rate their desire to automate this 4.1/5, and experts rate current AI capability at 4/5. That puts it in the Automation Green Light zone.

Worker desire to automate4.1/5

How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 10 workers).

AI capability today4.0/5

How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 2 experts).

How much human involvement should stay?

The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.

H3Equal human–AI partnership

Why workers want this automated

  • Frees up time for higher-value work70%
  • Reduces human error70%
  • Helps handle larger scale60%
  • It's repetitive30%
  • It's stressful30%
  • It's difficult20%

How to automate this

Good news: this is a strong candidate to automate now.

Judgment, review & checks

Automate the checks, keep the decision with a person.

  1. 1Encode rules and checklists so routine cases are flagged automatically.
  2. 2Add validation rules to catch errors before they reach you.
  3. 3Let AI pre-screen and surface the exceptions, you decide the hard ones.

Tools that can help

Validation rulesChecklist / SOP appAI triage

Know a better way, or spot an error?

Share how you automate this in real life, or correct the data. Reviewed before publishing.

This is 1 of 6 tasks studied for Computer and Information Research Scientists, where workers want 100% of tasks automated.

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