The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Comparison

Loan Interviewers and Clerks vs Receptionists and Information Clerks

Loan Interviewers and Clerks carries the higher exposed share at 58.4% against 56.4%, a gap of 2.0 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
Loan Interviewers and Clerks58.4%27.4%14.2%0.860.34$50,02053exposed
Receptionists and Information Clerks56.4%15.5%28.1%0.720.25$38,01065exposed

What stands in the way, in each

Loan Interviewers and Clerks: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.86 of 1 and friction at 0.34 of 1.

Receptionists and Information Clerks: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.72 of 1 and friction at 0.25 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.