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Intelligence Verdict
AI and your work

Radiologist

What the US government's figures say about this job, the tasks it involves, and every study we found on what AI does to it. None of this is a forecast of your own job.

  • 28,700US jobs, 2025
  • $420,860median pay a year, 2025
  • +3%government outlook, 2025 to 35
What the government says

The official outlook.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects every job ten years ahead and says what it expects to drive the change.

AI in the government's outlook

The government covers radiologists within its physicians and surgeons profile, which doesn't mention AI.

BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Aug 27, 2026

US jobs, 2025
28,700

From the radiologist row of the Physicians and Surgeons projections table; projected 29,600 in 2035 (+3%, +1,000)..

Median pay, 2025
$420,860
Outlook, 2025 to 35
3%
The work itself

The job's main tasks.

As the government's O*NET database lists them. AI's effect on a job depends on which of these tasks it can do.

  1. 01Prepare comprehensive interpretive reports of findings.
  2. 02Perform or interpret the outcomes of diagnostic imaging procedures including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), …
  3. 03Document the performance, interpretation, or outcomes of all procedures performed.
  4. 04Communicate examination results or diagnostic information to referring physicians, patients, or families.
  5. 05Obtain patients' histories from electronic records, patient interviews, dictated reports, or by communicating with referring …

O*NET OnLine, Oct 6, 2026

The evidence on AI

What studies have found.

We haven't found a trial or study of AI in this job yet. The score below is the best measure so far of how much its work overlaps with what people do with AI.

AI applicability scoreCompany-reported

0.14on a scale from 0 to 1

01

Microsoft AI applicability score for Radiologists (SOC 29-1224)

How much of the occupation's work activities overlap with what people successfully do with Microsoft's Bing Copilot; not a forecast of job loss.

Microsoft Research, Working with AI, Dec 22, 2025 · data licensed CC BY 4.0