Translators & Interpreters
Language & Communication
SOC 27-3091
~0.1M US jobs
Median $57,090
OFI
53.0
transformation pressure
Eloundou et al. flag translation among the highest GPT-exposed tasks, and AIOE ranks language tasks near the ceiling; high-stakes legal/medical interpreting preserves a human-accountability remainder. — AIOE; Eloundou et al. 2023; OECD
Task transformation under adoption
Share of tasks automated / augmented / human, projected via Bass-diffusion adoption. Scenario, not a prediction.
Exposure profile
Representative tasks
- Translate written text between languages
- Localize documents and media
- Proofread machine output
- Interpret spoken dialogue
- Adapt idiom and tone
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We model task transformation, not job loss. OFI and its projections are scenario estimates grounded in published AI-exposure frameworks — model outputs, not predictions of employment outcomes.