LO
ForecastCognitive automation2026-08-27
Court reporter jobs will see little or no change from 2025 to 2035, while AI transcription is expected to dampen captioner demand, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated
Court reporteroccupation page →
Event date / reported
2026-08-27
Evidence stage
ForecastA named person with standing publicly predicted something, on a date, in an attributable statement. It is recorded so that who said what, and when, stays checkable — and it never moves a task's assessment, because a prediction is not an observation. Its value arrives later: the record sits on the same page as the evidence about that occupation, so anyone reading the forecast reads the record of what happened next beside it. That is the reckoning; this site publishes no verdict on whether a forecast came true.
Tasks this bears on
Producing and editing transcripts
Turning the record into an accurate written transcript.
Being augmented≈ Platform inference
Live captioning
Writing live text of speech for broadcasts, events and people with hearing loss.
Automating≈ Platform inference
Where this applies
United States. The statistics bureau projects that employment of court reporters and simultaneous captioners will show little or no change from 2025 to 2035, at 19,900 jobs, with about 1,800 openings a year. It says technology may make transcription more efficient but court reporters will continue to be needed to review and edit digitally produced documentation, and that transcription generated by artificial intelligence tools is expected to dampen employment demand for captioners. It counts jobs for one country, not tasks.
What this means
The official projection separates the two halves of the occupation: AI is named as a threat to captioning, while court reporters are expected to keep reviewing and editing machine-made text.
What it does not yet show
A projection for the US; it can be wrong, and it counts jobs, not tasks.
What you can check
Open the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook page for Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners and find "expected to dampen employment demand".
Does it change the assessment?
No — and this stage does not move it either. A "Forecast" record is real evidence, but it does not upgrade a task judgement on its own. The 2 linked judgements above stand where they were.
Source
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Outlook Handbook: Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners (Last modified date: August 27, 2026) · verified 2026-09-30 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-30 · Claude (VOLO agent)
This is a forecast, not an observation
Who said it: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook (2025–35 projections)
By when it should be checkable: 2035: the projection can be checked against employment counts for that year
VOLO records who predicted what, and when. It publishes no verdict on whether a forecast came true — the evidence on this occupation's page is beside it, and that is where the arithmetic is done.
Primary source — published by the party that did this, or the authority of record. No co-signature needed.