The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Comparison

Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks vs Customer Service Representatives

Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks carries the higher exposed share at 68.6% against 66.1%, a gap of 2.5 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
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks68.6%23.0%8.4%0.920.26$49,2309exposed
Customer Service Representatives66.1%23.6%10.3%0.900.27$44,77013exposed

What stands in the way, in each

Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.92 of 1 and friction at 0.26 of 1.

Customer Service Representatives: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.90 of 1 and friction at 0.27 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.