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OCCUPATION PROFILE · ISCO 2641

Technical writers

Material disruption pressure. This profile combines theoretical task exposure, observed professional AI use, and a deliberately weak early labour-market signal. It does not claim that technical writers will disappear.

JOB DOOM46.1out of 100occupation disruption profile, not a disappearance forecast
Job Doom
46.1
Confidence
67/100
Countries represented
48
ILO exposure class
Gradient 3
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CURRENT SCORE

Why the score is 46.1

The ILO signal covers 6 international task statements. The observed-use measure maps the nearest compatible O*NET occupation from the Anthropic dataset. Mapping uncertainty is included in confidence.

Theoretical task exposure 35% weight
54.5

How much of the international occupation's task content GenAI could technically assist or perform.

Observed professional adoption 55% weight
47.5

How much capable task coverage appears in automated or work-related Claude usage.

Early labour-market signal 10% weight
9.5

Capped at one fifth of observed adoption because broad unemployment effects have not been established.

DoomBench display occupation
Technical writers
International mapping
Authors and related writers · ISCO 2641
Observed-use mapping
Technical Writers · SOC 27-3042
EVIDENCE OVER TIME

Job Doom progression

Scores change only when comparable evidence becomes available. The June 2026 release changed its measurement pipeline, so the March value is held rather than manufacturing a false movement.

0 25 50 75 100 50.7 2025-05 46.1 2026-03 46.1 2026-06
  1. 50.7ILO refined exposure plus March 2025 observed-use proxy
  2. 46.1Observed occupation exposure published
  3. 46.1Held pending a directly comparable occupation update
ECONOMIC RELEVANCE

Countries where this job enters the 90% set

The same job score is reused internationally, while its estimated GDP importance changes with each country's economy. This avoids pretending sparse local score evidence means the occupation behaves differently without proof.

48 of 48 countries

  1. Luxembourg 🇱🇺

    Estimated GDP share
    2.07%
    Country Job Doom
    30.2
    Country confidence
    71/100

  2. Monaco 🇲🇨

    Estimated GDP share
    2.01%
    Country Job Doom
    29.5
    Country confidence
    61/100

  3. United Kingdom 🇬🇧

    Estimated GDP share
    1.86%
    Country Job Doom
    27.8
    Country confidence
    70/100

  4. United States 🇺🇸

    Estimated GDP share
    1.85%
    Country Job Doom
    27.4
    Country confidence
    71/100

  5. Vatican City 🇻🇦

    Estimated GDP share
    1.71%
    Country Job Doom
    28.0
    Country confidence
    51/100

  6. Switzerland 🇨🇭

    Estimated GDP share
    1.69%
    Country Job Doom
    25.7
    Country confidence
    71/100

  7. Netherlands 🇳🇱

    Estimated GDP share
    1.63%
    Country Job Doom
    26.5
    Country confidence
    71/100

  8. Singapore 🇸🇬

    Estimated GDP share
    1.58%
    Country Job Doom
    26.3
    Country confidence
    71/100

  9. Andorra 🇦🇩

    Estimated GDP share
    1.54%
    Country Job Doom
    26.8
    Country confidence
    71/100

  10. Israel 🇮🇱

    Estimated GDP share
    1.44%
    Country Job Doom
    25.4
    Country confidence
    71/100

  11. France 🇫🇷

    Estimated GDP share
    1.43%
    Country Job Doom
    25.2
    Country confidence
    71/100

  12. Greece 🇬🇷

    Estimated GDP share
    1.41%
    Country Job Doom
    25.0
    Country confidence
    71/100

  13. Portugal 🇵🇹

    Estimated GDP share
    1.38%
    Country Job Doom
    24.8
    Country confidence
    71/100

  14. Ireland 🇮🇪

    Estimated GDP share
    1.37%
    Country Job Doom
    22.6
    Country confidence
    71/100

  15. Liechtenstein 🇱🇮

    Estimated GDP share
    1.37%
    Country Job Doom
    22.6
    Country confidence
    71/100

  16. Malta 🇲🇹

    Estimated GDP share
    1.37%
    Country Job Doom
    25.5
    Country confidence
    71/100

  17. Bahamas 🇧🇸

    Estimated GDP share
    1.36%
    Country Job Doom
    25.2
    Country confidence
    70/100

  18. Estonia 🇪🇪

    Estimated GDP share
    1.36%
    Country Job Doom
    24.4
    Country confidence
    71/100

  19. Spain 🇪🇸

    Estimated GDP share
    1.36%
    Country Job Doom
    24.3
    Country confidence
    71/100

  20. Costa Rica 🇨🇷

    Estimated GDP share
    1.35%
    Country Job Doom
    24.3
    Country confidence
    71/100

  21. St. Kitts and Nevis 🇰🇳

    Estimated GDP share
    1.35%
    Country Job Doom
    24.4
    Country confidence
    71/100

  22. Sweden 🇸🇪

    Estimated GDP share
    1.35%
    Country Job Doom
    23.9
    Country confidence
    71/100

  23. New Zealand 🇳🇿

    Estimated GDP share
    1.34%
    Country Job Doom
    24.1
    Country confidence
    71/100

  24. Croatia 🇭🇷

    Estimated GDP share
    1.33%
    Country Job Doom
    24.0
    Country confidence
    71/100

  25. Cyprus 🇨🇾

    Estimated GDP share
    1.33%
    Country Job Doom
    25.2
    Country confidence
    71/100

  26. Iceland 🇮🇸

    Estimated GDP share
    1.33%
    Country Job Doom
    23.9
    Country confidence
    71/100

  27. Latvia 🇱🇻

    Estimated GDP share
    1.33%
    Country Job Doom
    24.1
    Country confidence
    71/100

  28. Uruguay 🇺🇾

    Estimated GDP share
    1.33%
    Country Job Doom
    24.0
    Country confidence
    71/100

  29. Barbados 🇧🇧

    Estimated GDP share
    1.31%
    Country Job Doom
    24.9
    Country confidence
    71/100

  30. Bulgaria 🇧🇬

    Estimated GDP share
    1.31%
    Country Job Doom
    23.4
    Country confidence
    71/100

  31. Lithuania 🇱🇹

    Estimated GDP share
    1.31%
    Country Job Doom
    23.3
    Country confidence
    71/100

  32. Australia 🇦🇺

    Estimated GDP share
    1.30%
    Country Job Doom
    23.7
    Country confidence
    71/100

  33. Bahrain 🇧🇭

    Estimated GDP share
    1.30%
    Country Job Doom
    20.7
    Country confidence
    70/100

  34. Austria 🇦🇹

    Estimated GDP share
    1.29%
    Country Job Doom
    23.2
    Country confidence
    71/100

  35. Finland 🇫🇮

    Estimated GDP share
    1.28%
    Country Job Doom
    23.0
    Country confidence
    71/100

  36. Belgium 🇧🇪

    Estimated GDP share
    1.27%
    Country Job Doom
    24.4
    Country confidence
    71/100

  37. Denmark 🇩🇰

    Estimated GDP share
    1.27%
    Country Job Doom
    23.5
    Country confidence
    71/100

  38. Hungary 🇭🇺

    Estimated GDP share
    1.26%
    Country Job Doom
    22.7
    Country confidence
    71/100

  39. Nauru 🇳🇷

    Estimated GDP share
    1.26%
    Country Job Doom
    22.6
    Country confidence
    51/100

  40. Canada 🇨🇦

    Estimated GDP share
    1.24%
    Country Job Doom
    22.7
    Country confidence
    71/100

  41. Seychelles 🇸🇨

    Estimated GDP share
    1.23%
    Country Job Doom
    23.8
    Country confidence
    71/100

  42. Poland 🇵🇱

    Estimated GDP share
    1.22%
    Country Job Doom
    22.3
    Country confidence
    71/100

  43. Czechia 🇨🇿

    Estimated GDP share
    1.20%
    Country Job Doom
    22.0
    Country confidence
    71/100

  44. Slovenia 🇸🇮

    Estimated GDP share
    1.19%
    Country Job Doom
    22.5
    Country confidence
    71/100

  45. Panama 🇵🇦

    Estimated GDP share
    1.16%
    Country Job Doom
    23.4
    Country confidence
    71/100

  46. Russia 🇷🇺

    Estimated GDP share
    1.16%
    Country Job Doom
    21.3
    Country confidence
    70/100

  47. Montenegro 🇲🇪

    Estimated GDP share
    1.14%
    Country Job Doom
    24.4
    Country confidence
    71/100

  48. St. Lucia 🇱🇨

    Estimated GDP share
    1.02%
    Country Job Doom
    23.8
    Country confidence
    71/100
SOURCE LEDGER

Evidence and limitations

Source dates describe when evidence became public. Every revision links to its source, and incompatible later releases are disclosed instead of silently blended.

  1. Anthropic

    Anthropic Economic Index, March 2025 release

    Updated occupation-task usage breadth used for the first scored revision

    Historical breadth is calibrated to the later compatible observed-exposure score. · MIT
  2. International Labour Organization and NASK

    Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure

    Task-level theoretical exposure and ISCO-08 exposure category

    Exposure describes technical task potential, not observed job loss. · CC BY 4.0
  3. Anthropic

    Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

    Observed occupation exposure based on task capability and real Claude usage

    The study reports no systematic unemployment increase and only suggestive early-career hiring effects. · MIT
  4. Anthropic

    Anthropic Economic Index: Cadences

    Latest evidence checkpoint and methodology-change disclosure

    The release changed its pipeline and does not provide a directly comparable replacement occupation score. · MIT
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  1. Technical writers has a DoomBench Job Doom score of 46.1 out of 100, combining task exposure, observed professional AI adoption, a bounded labour signal, and explicit confidence.

  2. Technical writers scores highest on theoretical task exposure at 54.5 out of 100 in the DoomBench occupation profile, which is a disruption signal rather than a disappearance forecast.

  3. DoomBench maps Technical writers into 48 country profiles and publishes its source occupation, task counts, component weights, dated score history, limitations, and confidence of 67 out of 100.

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