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Auditor — how we know
The page itself gives the judgements. This one gives what they rest on: which technologies bear on the work, how the estimate moved since language models reached the public, and the method behind both.
Which technologies matter here#
Four separate signals. They are deliberately not added together — a job exposed to two technologies is not twice as exposed.
How it got here#
The index is not a static number. This is where it would have sat at each capability checkpoint since ChatGPT — reconstructed, and labelled as such.
—— this stretch contains a verified event- - - no event in this stretch — reconstruction only0 = no task exposed, 100 = every task exposed
● 3 verified events for this occupation, plotted at the date it happened — the parts of the line near a marker are anchored to something checkable.
A high start that is not about generative AI: full-population testing was already ordinary in large audits a decade ago, so the profession entered this period with its most visible task — sampling — already losing its reason to exist. Sampling is unusual in that it does not become obsolete by being done better; it becomes obsolete by becoming unnecessary once testing everything is cheap. The 2023-2025 rise is generation reaching the working papers, the most templated documentation in professional services. It flattens because of something written into law rather than into the technology: in every market with a statutory audit, a licensed person must sign, and liability attaches to that signature. Note what the curve protects and what it does not — the signature, not the number of juniors needed to reach a signable file.
A flat line is not a forecast of safety. It says which tasks automation has reached so far — the occupations that moved least here are the ones where the constraint is physical or regulatory, and both of those can change.
Written about this#
These pieces argue from the same records this page holds, and each of their sections names what it rests on.
Method and sources#
- Assessment date
- 2026-09-12
- Basis of the task judgements
- 3 evidence-backed · 3 platform inference · 0 not enough evidence
- Verified events
- 3