Engineering & Architecture · SOC 17-2051
Designs and oversees infrastructure projects.
Hands-on, interpersonal or high-stakes work AI struggles to replace.
Timeline: Augmented — modeling automates; site judgment and accountability remain.
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Civil Engineer is resilient on AIFear. Hands-on, interpersonal or high-stakes work AI struggles to replace.
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Our AI Fear Score for Civil Engineer is 24/100 (Resilient). Hands-on, interpersonal or high-stakes work AI struggles to replace.
24 out of 100. It blends a Frey & Osborne automation probability of 2% with an estimated LLM task-exposure of 50%.
Most exposed: Calculations, Drafting, Report generation. Harder to automate: Field judgment, Stakeholder and safety decisions.
Lean into PE license, Project leadership, AI-assisted modeling. Consider roles such as Project engineer or Engineering manager.
AI Fear Score blends Frey & Osborne (2013) automation probability with an LLM task-exposure estimate (after Eloundou et al., 2023). Pay/employment are approximate BLS figures. This is an estimate, not a prediction about any individual's job. Compare all occupations.