Intelligence Analyst: how AI changes this job over time
Our best estimates, shown as ranges and grades - not exact predictions.
Right now, AI can already do about 60% of the day-to-day work in this job, and by 20 years from now that could be around 95%. There are likely to be fewer of these jobs over time - very roughly 50-80% of the 2024 number, 20 years out. Getting your first job here is not that easy today, and it looks set to get harder. What keeps this job safest is the law: you need a licence to do it, and AI cannot hold one.
What we assume: AI keeps getting cheaper and better; robots arrive more slowly - small effect by ~2031, bigger by ~2036, widespread by the mid-2040s. "Number of jobs" means how many jobs there will be compared with 2024 (100% = the same). "How hard to get in" runs from A (easy) to E (very hard).
How a Intelligence Analyst job changes over time
AI can already do a large part of this kind of work - drafting, checking, analysing and flagging problems. The number of these jobs is likely to fall over time, and getting in will get harder. But the law says a qualified, registered person must still do or sign off the work, which keeps a human in the loop even as AI handles more of the detail.
AI takes on more of the routine checking, drafting and data work. You will need to use these tools to stay useful, and employers will expect it from day one.
The number of jobs in this area is likely to shrink as AI does more of the middle work. The people still needed will be the ones who can oversee AI output, take responsibility, and handle the complex cases AI cannot.
Nobody knows exactly where this ends up, but the legal requirement for a qualified person to sign off the work is unlikely to disappear. There will probably be far fewer of these jobs though, so the people in them will need to be very good at the human part.
The honest bottom line: these are among the more protected jobs because a licence holder must legally sign off the work - AI cannot replace that. Even so, fewer people will be needed as AI does more of the work, so entry will get tougher. What lasts is the professional judgement, the accountability, and the trust that only a qualified person can carry.
How to aim for a Intelligence Analyst career
You're looking ahead at this job. By the time you join, AI will already do more of it - so aim for the part that will still need a person.
What pushes this score up
Sources: exposure dial - Anthropic labour market research (2026), observed real-world AI usage by occupation. Job-security category and forecast - OpenAI, "The AI Jobs Transition Framework" (Richmond, 2026, OpenAI Economic Research), CC BY 4.0, matched to "Intelligence Analysts" (33-3021.06). Scorecard grades and verdicts are CourseMap editorial judgment - we show forecasts as forecasts and own our conclusions.