The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Occupation · SOC 11-9199.01 · Job Zone 4

AI exposure: Regulatory Affairs Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate production activities of an organization to ensure compliance with regulations and standard operating procedures.

Reading this score

computed

43.5% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Regulatory Affairs Managers at the 78th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 2.8 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.

What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 27 tasks it averages 2.06 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.

The most exposed thing this job does is Monitor emerging trends regarding industry regulations to determine potential impacts on..., at 73.3%. The least is Represent organizations before domestic or international regulatory agencies on major policy..., at 6.7%. A gap of 66.7% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.

Within management occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 56 roles in the group is 41.2%, and only 16 of them score higher than this. Occupational families are not uniform, and the spread inside them is often wider than the gap between them.

What would move this score. Of 27 tasks, 23 are currently banded exposed, 1 assisted and 3 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take cheaper ways to verify output, since the cost of checking is currently doing more to hold this work in place than the cost of producing it. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.

Task by task

27 tasks, O*NET 31.0
TaskExposedAssistedUntouchedImportanceBand
Monitor emerging trends regarding industry regulations to determine potential impacts on organizational processes.73.3%26.7%0.0%3.41exposed
Monitor regulatory affairs trends related to environmental issues.73.3%26.7%0.0%3.19exposed
Communicate regulatory information to multiple departments and ensure that information is interpreted correctly.66.7%33.3%0.0%4.13exposed
Investigate product complaints and prepare documentation and submissions to appropriate regulatory agencies as necessary.60.0%40.0%0.0%4.47exposed
Maintain current knowledge of relevant regulations, including proposed and final rules.60.0%15.0%25.0%4.09exposed
Establish regulatory priorities or budgets and allocate resources and workloads.55.6%27.8%16.7%3.77exposed
Participate in the development or implementation of clinical trial protocols.55.0%20.0%25.0%3.91exposed
Develop regulatory strategies and implementation plans for the preparation and submission of new products.50.0%25.0%25.0%4.74exposed
Review all regulatory agency submission materials to ensure timeliness, accuracy, comprehensiveness, or compliance with regulatory standards.50.0%25.0%25.0%4.61exposed
Provide responses to regulatory agencies regarding product information or issues.50.0%25.0%25.0%4.43exposed
Establish procedures or systems for publishing document submissions in hardcopy or electronic formats.50.0%25.0%25.0%3.78exposed
Develop and maintain standard operating procedures or local working practices.50.0%25.0%25.0%3.74exposed
Coordinate internal discoveries and depositions with legal department staff.50.0%25.0%25.0%3.44exposed
Evaluate new software publishing systems and confer with regulatory agencies concerning news or updates on electronic publishing of submissions.50.0%25.0%25.0%2.56exposed
Direct documentation efforts to ensure compliance with domestic and international regulations and standards.46.7%28.3%25.0%3.96exposed
Review materials such as marketing literature or user manuals to ensure that regulatory agency requirements are met.45.0%30.0%25.0%3.95exposed
Monitor regulatory affairs activities to ensure their alignment with corporate sustainability or green initiatives.40.0%35.0%25.0%3.47exposed
Evaluate regulatory affairs aspects that are specifically green, such as the use of toxic substances in packaging, carbon footprinting issues, or green policy implementation.40.0%35.0%25.0%3.12exposed
Provide regulatory guidance to departments or development project teams regarding design, development, evaluation, or marketing of products.35.0%40.0%25.0%4.30assisted
Formulate or implement regulatory affairs policies and procedures to ensure that regulatory compliance is maintained or enhanced.31.1%27.2%41.7%4.00exposed
Direct the preparation and submission of regulatory agency applications, reports, or correspondence.26.7%23.3%50.0%4.48exposed
Manage activities such as audits, regulatory agency inspections, or product recalls.26.7%23.3%50.0%4.19exposed
Train staff in regulatory policies or procedures.26.7%23.3%50.0%3.74exposed
Contribute to the development or implementation of business unit strategic and operating plans.26.7%23.3%50.0%3.48exposed
Implement or monitor complaint processing systems to ensure effective and timely resolution of all complaint investigations.18.8%18.8%62.5%3.83untouched
Develop relationships with state or federal environmental regulatory agencies to learn about and analyze the potential impacts of proposed environmental policy regulations.11.7%13.3%75.0%3.26untouched
Represent organizations before domestic or international regulatory agencies on major policy matters or decisions regarding company products.6.7%18.3%75.0%4.36untouched

Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.

Where the score comes from

judged

Every task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.

DimensionMeanScale
Capability2.780-4
Embodiment0.300-3
Presence0.750-3
Accountability1.250-3
Context2.060-3
Verification cost1.610-3

What this means in practice

Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.

Occupations either side of this one

The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.

Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.