Which writer tasks are most exposed to AI?

Develop advertising campaigns for a wide range of clients, working with an advertising agency's creative director and art director to determine the best way to present advertising information. Review advertising trends, consumer surveys, and other data regarding marketing of goods and services to determine the best way to promote products. Write articles, bulletins, sales letters, speeches, and other related informative, marketing and promotional material.

Will AI replace writers and copywriters? What the job data shows

Q: Will AI replace writers and copywriters?

Our estimate puts writers and copywriters at higher exposure: that is how much of the listed work is information processing AI tools can do or speed up, not a forecast that the job disappears. JobRipe doesn't have enough postings yet to show a demand trend.

AI exposure (estimate)

Higher exposure

From 20 O*NET tasks

Hiring demand on JobRipe

Demand trend: not enough data yet

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365

from 211 employers

An estimate, not a prediction. This is an estimate of how much of this kind of work AI tools can do or speed up, built from published task lists. It is not a prediction about your job, your employer or your career: most jobs change rather than disappear, and the parts that change are often the routine ones.

What the work is made of

Information work (reading, writing, calculating, analysing)about 60%
Planning, deciding and coordinatingabout 10%
Working directly with peopleabout 20%
Hands-on physical workabout 0%

Tasks AI tools can do or speed up

Develop advertising campaigns for a wide range of clients, working with an advertising agency's creative director and art director to determine the best way to present advertising information.
Review advertising trends, consumer surveys, and other data regarding marketing of goods and services to determine the best way to promote products.
Write articles, bulletins, sales letters, speeches, and other related informative, marketing and promotional material.
Conduct research to obtain factual information and authentic detail, using sources such as newspaper accounts, diaries, and interviews.

Tasks that rely on people or hands-on work

Present drafts and ideas to clients.
Discuss with the client the product, advertising themes and methods, and any changes that should be made in advertising copy.
Collaborate with other writers on specific projects.
Consult with sales, media and marketing representatives to obtain information on product or service and discuss style and length of advertising written material.

Tasks as published by O*NET for Writers and Authors.

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How we work this out

Every task O*NET lists for the occupation is put in one of four groups by its main verb and what it acts on. Information work counts fully towards exposure, planning and deciding half, working directly with people a fifth, and hands-on physical work not at all. Tasks are weighted by how important O*NET's survey of workers rates them. The weighted result is shown only as a band.

Information work (reading, writing, calculating, analysing)
counts fully towards exposure
Planning, deciding and coordinating
counts half towards exposure
Working directly with people
counts a fifth towards exposure
Hands-on physical work
counts not at all towards exposure

Bands: Lower exposure, Medium exposure from 40 in 100 weighted task points, Higher exposure from 65 in 100 weighted task points. Supplemental tasks count 70% of a core task.

Demand: new postings JobRipe first saw from 2026-07-26 to 2026-10-24 compared with the 90 days before (2026-04-27 onwards), only from employers JobRipe was already tracking before 2026-04-27, so adding employers never looks like growth. A trend needs at least 20 earlier postings from 5+ employers; a change of 15% or more is “growing” or “shrinking”. A rising or falling skill needs 10+ postings and a 5-point move.

Sources

O*NET 30.3 Database (task statements, task importance ratings, occupation data), U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA) · CC BY 4.0
Autor, Levy & Murnane (2003), The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change, Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(4) · used for the routine / non-routine task framework (method only, no data)
· used for the idea of rating exposure task by task from O*NET (method only, no data)