Office & Admin · SOC 43-9021
Keys, transcribes and validates information into systems.
Core tasks are highly automatable — expect major disruption.
Timeline: Now — OCR plus LLM extraction already automates most of this.
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Data Entry Clerk is high risk on AIFear. Core tasks are highly automatable — expect major disruption.
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Our AI Fear Score for Data Entry Clerk is 90/100 (High risk). Core tasks are highly automatable — expect major disruption.
90 out of 100. It blends a Frey & Osborne automation probability of 99% with an estimated LLM task-exposure of 80%.
Most exposed: Transcribing forms, Copying data between systems, Basic validation. Harder to automate: Resolving ambiguous or conflicting records.
Lean into SQL & spreadsheets, Data QA, Automation tools. Consider roles such as Data analyst or Operations coordinator.
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.