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Psychologist — 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.

Assessed
2026-09-30
With evidence
4/5
Verified events
12

Which technologies matter here#

Four separate signals. They are deliberately not added together — a job exposed to two technologies is not twice as exposed.

Cognitive automation
Giving standardised testsWriting the assessment reportIntake and diagnosisPsychotherapyNotes, letters and paperwork
Process & self-service
Notes, letters and paperwork

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.

Reconstructed · platform inferenceEstimated today for each past checkpoint — not measured at the time. 20 → 38.
1007550250
Pearson launched an AI assistant in its Q-global and Q-interactive platforms that drafts sections of psychological evaluation reports, saying clinicians stay fully responsibleIn Australia, 43.5% of surveyed mental health clinicians reported daily AI use for administrative or clinician-support tasks, and 33.1% for client-facing tasks, a study foundPsychologist employment will grow 6 percent from 2025 to 2035, and clinical and counseling psychologists 12 percent, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIThe Australian Psychological Society said psychologists remain solely responsible for all outcomes when using AI and need explicit consent for each specific toolMore than half of US psychologists used AI tools at least once in the past year, up from 29% in 2024, mostly for emails and notes, the American Psychological Association reportedIllinois's Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act bars AI from therapeutic decision-making and allows it for administrative support, the state regulator announcedNICE said two AI digital front door tools can gather information for NHS Talking Therapies assessments only while evidence is generated over three yearsLicensed psychologists generally rated human-written psychological reports above GPT-4 ones, but effect sizes were typically small, a study of 249 raters foundJapan's 公認心理師法 requires a certified psychologist to take the attending physician's instruction where the person has one, while protecting only the title, not the workLanguage models expressed stigma toward people with mental health conditions and encouraged clients' delusional thinking in therapy tests, a study foundIn the first clinical trial of a generative AI therapy chatbot, depression symptoms fell 51% on average, yet its investigators said no AI is ready to operate fully autonomouslyNHS talking-therapy services using an AI self-referral chatbot saw referrals rise 15% against 6% in control services, in a study of 129,400 patients by the chatbot's makers123456789not assessed
2022 H22024 H2Now

—— this stretch contains a verified event- - - no event in this stretch — reconstruction only0 = no task exposed, 100 = every task exposed

● 12 verified events for this occupation, plotted at the date it happened — the parts of the line near a marker are anchored to something checkable.

Starts at 20 because computerised test scoring and electronic records were already routine before this chart begins, while testing, diagnosis and therapy were done in person. It climbs with the releases that could draft notes, summaries and evaluation reports, which surveys show psychologists taking up for paperwork, and stays low because diagnosis and therapy remain with the psychologist, a trial's own investigators say AI is not ready to work autonomously, and one US state bars AI from therapeutic decisions.

12022 H220General-purpose text generation reaches the public. Before this point, exposure came from automation that was already deployed — OCR, RPA, machine vision, self-checkout, dispatch algorithms. ChatGPT research preview (2022-11-30) ↗
22023 H121A general model that passes professional exams. First-draft quality crosses the threshold where professional work starts using it. GPT-4 (2023-03-14) ↗
32023 H223Vision input, long context and tool calling. Models can be pointed at documents and connected to systems, which is what moves process work rather than writing work. GPT-4 Turbo:128k 上下文、视觉、工具调用(DevDay) (2023-11-06) ↗
42024 H126The same capability gets much cheaper and faster. Nothing new becomes possible; a lot becomes affordable at volume, which is when deployment decisions change.
52024 H229Reasoning models that work through multi-step problems, and the first models that operate a computer by looking at the screen. The second one is what reaches software-operating jobs. OpenAI o1(推理);同期 Claude 的 computer use 进入公测 (2024-09-12) ↗
62025 H132Agents begin operating real software end to end rather than producing text for a person to paste. This is also when the first public reversals appear — organisations that automated and partly undid it. Claude 3.7 Sonnet 与 Claude Code:混合推理 + 命令行编码代理 (2025-02-24) ↗
72025 H234Long context and tool use become the default rather than a feature. Capability gains continue; the visible constraint shifts from what models can do to liability, procurement and cost. GPT-5(2025-08-07);Claude Opus 4.5(2025-11-24) (2025-08-07) ↗
82026 H136Long-horizon agents land inside specific industry workflows. Adoption becomes sector-specific rather than general. GPT-5.5:「专为实际工作打造」 (2026-04-23) ↗
9Now38The current assessment — this point is the impact index published on the occupation's page, so the curve is anchored to a number the site already stands behind. Worth noting for the flat curves: in the same weeks, a research preview of a shared specification for AI agents to operate physical devices was opened to research labs and manufacturers. That is the first capability class pointed at the physical occupations whose lines here barely move. GPT-6 Astra(2026-09-03);Claude Fable 5.1 / Mythos 5.1(2026-09-01);Model Hardware Standard 研究预览(2026-08-27) (2026-09-03) ↗

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.

  • AI in skilled jobs: what it does now, and who still signs

Method and sources#

Assessment date
2026-09-30
Basis of the task judgements
4 evidence-backed · 1 platform inference · 0 not enough evidence
Verified events
12

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