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Professionals · code 2265

Dieticians and nutritionists

Dieticians and nutritionists assess, plan and implement programmes to enhance the impact of food and nutrition on human health. Tasks include - (a) instructing individuals, families and communities on nutrition, the planning of diets and preparation of food to maximize health benefits and reduce potential risks to health; (b) planning diets and menus, supervising the preparation and serving of meals, and monitoring food intake and quality to provide nutritional care in settings offering food services; (c) compiling and assessing data relating to health and nutritional status of individuals, groups and communities based on nutritional values of food served or consumed; (d) planning and conducting nutrition assessments, intervention programmes, and education and training to improve nutritional levels among individuals and communities; (e) consulting with other health professionals and care providers to manage the dietary and nutritional needs of patients; (f) developing and evaluating food and nutrition products to meet nutritional requirements; (g) conducting research on nutrition and disseminating the findings at scientific conferences and in other settings. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Clinical dietician - Food service dietician - Nutritionist - Public health nutritionist - Sports nutritionist

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 334 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • dietitian

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58.6
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 41.4 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 41.4 = 58.6

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

15.6
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

10.6
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 23.1 · hand skill 3.6 · cramped spaces 5 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 15.6 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 56.5, while the average is 41.4. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 56.5

    Conducting research on nutrition and disseminating the findings at scientific conferences and in other settings.

    Medium
  2. 41.5

    Planning diets and menus, supervising the preparation and serving of meals, and monitoring food intake and quality to provide nutritional care in settings offering food services

    Low
  3. 41.5

    Developing and evaluating food and nutrition products to meet nutritional requirements

    Low
  4. 40

    Planning and conducting nutrition assessments, intervention programmes, and education and training to improve nutritional levels among individuals and communities

    Low
  5. 40

    Consulting with other health professionals and care providers to manage the dietary and nutritional needs of patients

    Low
  6. 36.5

    Compiling and assessing data relating to health and nutritional status of individuals, groups and communities based on nutritional values of food served or consumed

    Low
  7. 33.8

    Instructing individuals, families and communities on nutrition, the planning of diets and preparation of food to maximize health benefits and reduce potential risks to health

    Low

7 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches, but only partly: not everyone in it does this job. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
76
AI does it for you
40

Helping wins by 36 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2511

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.4. This one is below that.