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Dancers
Also filed here: Dancer, Choreographer
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 2.2% more of these jobs by 2035, slower than the 3.5% average.
- Rank
- Joint #614 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +2.2% All jobs: +3.5%
- People doing it
- 13,800 in the US, with about 1,600 openings a year
The work, 6 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 performances49%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Perform athletic activities for fitness, competition, or artistic purposes30%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,062 conversations, and it got them there 90% of the time.
Still yours: Sew garments or materials9%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI does this: Monitor external affairs, trends, or events5%
AI performed this in about 1 in 394 Copilot conversations and completed it 87% of the time.
AI helps with this: Create artistic designs or performances4%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 86 conversations, and it got them there 43% of the time.
Still yours: Train others on operational or work procedures3%
AI does this in desk jobs, but in this one it is mostly hands-on.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 102 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
About 1,600 openings a year, from growth and from people who retire or move on.
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
The jobs closest to this one. None of them is much less exposed.
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The wire
On the wire.
Nothing filed about this job yet. The latest from the Culture front:
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 0.09, higher than 29% 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, 27-2031 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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