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.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects every job ten years ahead and says what it expects to drive the change.
“Increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) for writing is projected to dampen demand for these workers.”
BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Aug 27, 2026
$36.98 an hour
As the government's O*NET database lists them. AI's effect on a job depends on which of these tasks it can do.
O*NET OnLine, Oct 6, 2026
Studies, trials and surveys that name this job, oldest evidence labeled as such.
0.45on a scale from 0 to 1
Microsoft AI applicability score for Writers and Authors (SOC 27-3043)
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
0.37on a scale from 0 to 1
Microsoft AI applicability score for Technical Writers (SOC 27-3042)
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.
Related occupation.
Microsoft Research, Working with AI, Dec 22, 2025 · data licensed CC BY 4.0
0.37on a scale from 0 to 1
Microsoft AI applicability score for Editors (SOC 27-3041)
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.
Related occupation.
Microsoft Research, Working with AI, Dec 22, 2025 · data licensed CC BY 4.0
College-educated professionals doing occupation-specific writing tasks with ChatGPT (2023).
“The average time taken decreased by 40% and output quality rose by 18%.”
Participants were professionals such as marketers and grant writers, not only writers; older evidence.
How far the evidence has got for tasks this job involves, on our six-step ladder.
Every taskChecked Oct 19, 2026. How we check
