Automation index
Can AI do a Photographer’s job?
Today an AI can already spin variants and assemble a first cut. Deciding what works, what ships, and why, is still direction.
It also does not predict how many people will lose their jobs.
IS WORK OVER?
Photographer
38%
AI or a robot can already do 38% of this job.
#36 / 83
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Tasks and time saved
Culling and batch edit
75%30% of the week
Brief and variants
50%20% of the week
The shoot
10%35% of the week
Direction and client
15%15% of the week
Estimate · first measured 25 Aug 2026. · Coverage 50%