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Will AI replace Midwife?
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical · $65,790 median pay · Graduate or professional degree
Automation exposure
How much of the work AI can already do
More exposed than 38% of the occupations in the index.
Averaged across 37 O*NET tasks, weighted by importance.
AI assistance potential
How much AI tools make the worker more capable
The core responsibilities of a midwife—such as assisting with childbirth, performing physical examinations, monitoring fetal growth through palpation, and providing emergency neonatal care—are inherently physical and hands-on, remaining largely unaugmented by AI. However, AI tools like automated clinical scribes, predictive risk-screening algorithms (e.g., detecting early signs of preeclampsia or gestational diabetes), and administrative documentation assistants offer marginal to moderate productivity gains for the paperwork and record-evaluation aspects of the role.
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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