The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Comparison

First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives vs Security Guards

First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives carries the higher exposed share at 26.4% against 22.4%, a gap of 4.0 points. The difference is driven by capability: a current system can simply produce more of the first job's work product than the second's. Release v2026.Q3.

OccupationExposedAssistedUntouchedCapabilityFrictionMedian payRankBand
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives26.4%18.8%54.8%0.450.58$106,040476untouched
Security Guards22.4%15.8%61.8%0.380.56$38,020539untouched

What stands in the way, in each

First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.45 of 1 and friction at 0.58 of 1.

Security Guards: the dominant friction is that the work happens to physical things in physical places. Capability sits at 0.38 of 1 and friction at 0.56 of 1.

Capability asks whether a generally available system can produce the work product at all. Friction asks what stops it finishing the job: physical work, being present, being accountable, unseen context, or the cost of checking the output. The rubric is here.

Read each in full

Exposure is not displacement. A higher score does not rank two jobs by how safe they are, and nothing here models adoption, employment or pay.