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title: "Will AI Replace Regulatory Affairs Managers?"
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# Will AI Replace Regulatory Affairs Managers? (2026)

**Short answer:** Not replaced, but changed. BLS rates the exposure as high, so AI can help with a real share of the work, yet it still projects employment to grow faster than average.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics places regulatory affairs managers in its high AI exposure category, above the middle of the pack: a substantial share of the work overlaps with what AI can do. BLS projects employment to change by +4.9% over 2025–2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 100,900 openings a year.

| Measure | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| BLS relative AI exposure | High | BLS Employment Projections, AI exposure categories |
| NueCareer AI-resilience score | 12/100 | NueCareer analysis of O\*NET 31.0 Database |
| Projected employment change | +4.9% | BLS EP 2025–2035 |
| Openings a year | 100,900 | BLS EP 2025–2035 |
| Median annual wage | $141,900 | BLS OEWS May 2025 |

## Exposure categories

| BLS category | Occupations |
| --- | --- |
| Low | 203 |
| Moderate | 194 |
| High (this job) | 190 |
| Very high | 199 |

Exposure means AI could be or has been used to assist with or complete some of the work. BLS says it does not imply job loss, productivity gains, automation probability or wage effects. Method: https://www.bls.gov/emp/publications/ai-exposure-categories.htm

## What holds up

- Face-to-face discussions: 4.6/5 (O\*NET work context)
- Establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships: 4.2/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Making decisions and solving problems: 4.5/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Resolving conflicts and negotiating with others: 3.5/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)

## What AI reaches first

- Processing information: 4.3/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Documenting/recording information: 4.3/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Evaluating information to determine compliance with standards: 4.7/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Working with computers: 4.4/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)

## O\*NET tasks

- Develop regulatory strategies and implementation plans for the preparation and submission of new products.
- Review all regulatory agency submission materials to ensure timeliness, accuracy, comprehensiveness, or compliance with regulatory standards.
- Direct the preparation and submission of regulatory agency applications, reports, or correspondence.
- Provide responses to regulatory agencies regarding product information or issues.
- Represent organizations before domestic or international regulatory agencies on major policy matters or decisions regarding company products.
- Provide regulatory guidance to departments or development project teams regarding design, development, evaluation, or marketing of products.

## Related careers less exposed to AI than regulatory affairs managers

- [Administrative Services Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/administrative-services-manager): BLS exposure Moderate, median $114,130; [Will AI replace administrative services managers?](https://nuecareer.com/careers/will-ai-replace-administrative-services-managers)

## FAQ

**Will AI replace regulatory affairs managers?**

Not replaced, but changed. BLS rates the exposure as high, so AI can help with a real share of the work, yet it still projects employment to grow faster than average. BLS defines exposure as AI being able to assist with or complete some of the work, and says it does not imply job loss, productivity gains or wage effects. BLS projects employment to change by +4.9% over 2025–2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 100,900 openings a year.

**How exposed are regulatory affairs managers to AI?**

BLS sorts 786 occupations into four relative categories: low, moderate, high and very high. Regulatory Affairs Managers are in the high category, alongside 189 other occupations. The categories combine five public measures of where AI could be or already is used, and they compare occupations with each other rather than giving an absolute risk.

**What parts of a regulatory affairs manager's job can AI do?**

In O\*NET's description of the work, the parts that overlap most with what AI handles well are processing information, documenting/recording information and evaluating information to determine compliance with standards. The parts that hold up best are face-to-face discussions, establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships and making decisions and solving problems. These come from O\*NET ratings of how important each activity is to the job, read through NueCareer's AI-resilience method.

**Is being a regulatory affairs manager a safe career from AI?**

On NueCareer's AI-resilience score, built from O\*NET work activities, regulatory affairs managers score 12 out of 100, higher than 4% of the occupations we score. The job pays a median of $141,900 a year (BLS OEWS, May 2025). No job is fully safe from technological change, but the federal exposure category and the projected openings are the two numbers worth weighing.

**What careers similar to regulatory affairs managers are less exposed to AI?**

Administrative Services Manager (moderate exposure, $114,130 median). Each is in a lower BLS exposure category than regulatory affairs managers, and most are listed by O\*NET as related to the work.

Full profile: https://nuecareer.com/careers/regulatory-affairs-manager.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology