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Actors
Also filed here: Actor, Actress, Theatre artist
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects the number of these jobs to hold steady to 2035.
- Rank
- #539 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- 0% All jobs: +3.5%
- People doing it
- 67,500 in the US, with about 6,300 openings a year
The work, 8 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
Still yours: Present arts or entertainment performances62%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Study details of artistic productions16%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 234 conversations, and it got them there 86% of the time. In this job the work is hands-on, so AI can only assist.
AI helps with this: Perform athletic activities for fitness, competition, or artistic purposes8%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,062 conversations, and it got them there 90% of the time.
AI helps with this: Communicate with others about specifications or project details5%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 139 conversations, and it got them there 62% of the time. In this job the work is hands-on, so AI can only assist.
AI does this: Promote products, services, or programs4%
AI performed this in about 1 in 117 Copilot conversations and completed it 92% of the time.
AI does this: Write material for artistic or commercial purposes2%
AI performed this in about 1 in 95 Copilot conversations and completed it 89% of the time.
AI does this: Provide information or assistance to the public2%
AI performed this in about 1 in 7 Copilot conversations and completed it 86% of the time.
AI helps with this: Create decorative objects or parts of objects1%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 559 conversations, and it got them there 51% of the time.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 100 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
About 6,300 openings a year, from growth and from people who retire or move on.
BLS on AIAI reduces commercial advertising work for actors; OOH says AI may replace some actors in certain subfields. Source ↗
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
The jobs closest to this one. None of them is much less exposed.
- Shares 82% of the workMusicians and Singers5% AI does, against 8% here+0.3% by 2035 · No formal credential
- Shares 57% of the workDancers5% AI does, against 8% here+2.2% by 2035 · No formal credential
- Shares 21% of the workMakeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance28% AI does, against 8% here+6.1% by 2035 · $97,150 · Postsecondary certificate
How to read this file.
deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.13, higher than 45% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 27-2011 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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