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Will AI replace Intelligence Analyst?
Protective Service · $93,790 median pay · Bachelor's degree
Automation exposure
How much of the work AI can already do
More exposed than 84% of the occupations in the index.
Averaged across 22 O*NET tasks, weighted by importance.
AI assistance potential
How much AI tools make the worker more capable
Intelligence analysis relies heavily on gathering, processing, correlating, and synthesizing massive volumes of structured and unstructured data from diverse sources (such as OSINT, communication records, public records, and database feeds). Modern AI tools—including LLM-based report generation, automated entity extraction, multi-lingual machine translation, and network visualization algorithms—dramatically augment an analyst's capacity. An AI-fluent analyst can ingest vast datasets, identify hidden patterns and links, and draft actionable intelligence products in a fraction of the time required by traditional methods. Because final verification, contextual evaluation, and operational decision-making still require critical human judgment, AI serves as a powerful force multiplier rather than a total replacement.
What the work involves and who it suits, beyond AI.
What the two scores mean
Automation exposure is how much of the work current AI can already perform. A high score means the tasks are exposed, not that the job will disappear: how employers use that is a separate question.
AI assistance potential is how much AI tools make a worker in this occupation more capable. It is upside, not risk — a job can score high on both.
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