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
computed43.5% 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| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monitor emerging trends regarding industry regulations to determine potential impacts on organizational processes. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.41 | exposed |
| Monitor regulatory affairs trends related to environmental issues. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.19 | exposed |
| Communicate regulatory information to multiple departments and ensure that information is interpreted correctly. | 66.7% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 4.13 | exposed |
| Investigate product complaints and prepare documentation and submissions to appropriate regulatory agencies as necessary. | 60.0% | 40.0% | 0.0% | 4.47 | exposed |
| Maintain current knowledge of relevant regulations, including proposed and final rules. | 60.0% | 15.0% | 25.0% | 4.09 | exposed |
| Establish regulatory priorities or budgets and allocate resources and workloads. | 55.6% | 27.8% | 16.7% | 3.77 | exposed |
| Participate in the development or implementation of clinical trial protocols. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 3.91 | exposed |
| Develop regulatory strategies and implementation plans for the preparation and submission of new products. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.74 | exposed |
| Review all regulatory agency submission materials to ensure timeliness, accuracy, comprehensiveness, or compliance with regulatory standards. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.61 | exposed |
| Provide responses to regulatory agencies regarding product information or issues. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.43 | exposed |
| Establish procedures or systems for publishing document submissions in hardcopy or electronic formats. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.78 | exposed |
| Develop and maintain standard operating procedures or local working practices. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.74 | exposed |
| Coordinate internal discoveries and depositions with legal department staff. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.44 | exposed |
| 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% | 2.56 | exposed |
| Direct documentation efforts to ensure compliance with domestic and international regulations and standards. | 46.7% | 28.3% | 25.0% | 3.96 | exposed |
| Review materials such as marketing literature or user manuals to ensure that regulatory agency requirements are met. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 3.95 | exposed |
| Monitor regulatory affairs activities to ensure their alignment with corporate sustainability or green initiatives. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 3.47 | exposed |
| 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% | 3.12 | exposed |
| Provide regulatory guidance to departments or development project teams regarding design, development, evaluation, or marketing of products. | 35.0% | 40.0% | 25.0% | 4.30 | assisted |
| Formulate or implement regulatory affairs policies and procedures to ensure that regulatory compliance is maintained or enhanced. | 31.1% | 27.2% | 41.7% | 4.00 | exposed |
| Direct the preparation and submission of regulatory agency applications, reports, or correspondence. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 4.48 | exposed |
| Manage activities such as audits, regulatory agency inspections, or product recalls. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 4.19 | exposed |
| Train staff in regulatory policies or procedures. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 3.74 | exposed |
| Contribute to the development or implementation of business unit strategic and operating plans. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 3.48 | exposed |
| Implement or monitor complaint processing systems to ensure effective and timely resolution of all complaint investigations. | 18.8% | 18.8% | 62.5% | 3.83 | untouched |
| 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% | 3.26 | untouched |
| Represent organizations before domestic or international regulatory agencies on major policy matters or decisions regarding company products. | 6.7% | 18.3% | 75.0% | 4.36 | untouched |
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
judgedEvery 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.
| Dimension | Mean | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 2.78 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 0.30 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.75 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 1.25 | 0-3 |
| Context | 2.06 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.61 | 0-3 |
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.