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Last Update: 11/21/2025
Your role’s AI Resilience Score is
45.5%
Median Score
Changing Fast
Evolving
Stable
What does this resilience result mean?
These roles are shifting as AI becomes part of everyday workflows. Expect new responsibilities and new opportunities.
AI Resilience Report for
Pharmacists
They prepare and give out medicines, making sure people get the right drugs and understand how to use them safely.
Summary
The career of a pharmacist is labeled as "Evolving" because AI is being integrated to handle routine tasks, like counting pills and checking prescriptions, which helps pharmacists focus more on patient care. While these technologies assist with efficiency and safety, pharmacists still play a crucial role in making final decisions, planning drug therapies, and providing personal advice.
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The career of a pharmacist is labeled as "Evolving" because AI is being integrated to handle routine tasks, like counting pills and checking prescriptions, which helps pharmacists focus more on patient care. While these technologies assist with efficiency and safety, pharmacists still play a crucial role in making final decisions, planning drug therapies, and providing personal advice.
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AI Resilience
All scores are converted into percentiles showing where this career ranks among U.S. careers. For models that measure impact or risk, we flip the percentile (subtract it from 100) to derive resilience.
CareerVillage.org's AI Resilience Analysis
AI Task Resilience
Evolving47.5%
47.5%
Microsoft's Working with AI
AI Applicability
Changing fast17.5%
17.5%
Anthropic's Economic Index
AI Resilience
Changing fast13.3%
13.3%
Will Robots Take My Job
Automation Resilience
Evolving69.0%
69.0%
Medium Demand
Labor Market Outlook
We use BLS employment projections to complement the AI-focused assessments from other sources.
Learn about this scoreGrowth Rate (2024-34):
4.6%
Growth Percentile:
70.2%
Annual Openings:
14.2
Annual Openings Pct:
61.1%
Analysis of Current AI Resilience
Pharmacists
Updated Quarterly • Last Update: 11/21/2025
State of Automation & Augmentation
Pharmacists already use machines and smart software for routine tasks, while they keep the hard decisions. For example, many pharmacies have robots that count and dispense pills, freeing pharmacists to talk with patients [1] [2]. Computer systems also scan prescriptions for errors – checking dosages, allergies, or drug interactions – with the help of AI.
These systems “analyze patient data…to identify and prevent medication errors” and flag dangerous drug interactions [3] [4]. Some researchers even show chatbots answering common medicine questions nearly as well as pharmacists [5] [2].
However, most professional tasks still need a real person. Planning drug therapy with doctors, managing a store, and teaching interns rely on human judgment and communication. AI tools so far only support these tasks.
In other words, AI and robots are automating the repetitive work (like counting pills or checking numbers) and giving pharmacists clues from big data, but the core “explain to patients” and “work with doctors” parts are done by people [5] [6]. Pharmacists use these technologies as helpers – for instance, software that predicts when medicines will run out or alerts them to strange prescribing patterns – but they still make the final call and give advice.
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AI Adoption
Pharmacies want to use AI fairly quickly when it helps with big challenges. Many pharmacies have trouble finding staff, since pharmacy schools have fewer applicants [6]. Automation can save time: one report noted that verification machines and packagers let staff focus on patient care, improving accuracy and safety [6] [1].
Because pharmacists are paid high wages (about \$66 per hour on average [7]), investing in a robot or smart software can pay off over time. Indeed, one case saw a dispensing robot increase prescriptions filled and patient consultations without needing more staff [1].
At the same time, new systems are expensive and must follow strict rules. Buying and setting up robots or AI systems can cost a lot up front and requires training [2]. Hospitals and pharmacies must test them carefully to ensure safety.
People also trust human pharmacists more for personal advice, so machines move in slowly. In summary, pharmacies use AI when it clearly boosts safety or saves labor, but they move cautiously because of costs, regulations, and the need for personal care [2] [6].
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Career: Pharmacists
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Employment & Wage Data
Median Wage
$137,480
Jobs (2024)
335,100
Growth (2024-34)
+4.6%
Annual Openings
14,200
Education
Doctoral or professional degree
Experience
None
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024-2034
Task-Level AI Resilience Scores
AI-generated estimates of task resilience over the next 3 years
1
Collaborate with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs or drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications or characteristics.
2
Manage pharmacy operations, hiring or supervising staff, performing administrative duties, or buying or selling non-pharmaceutical merchandise.
3
Teach pharmacy students serving as interns in preparation for their graduation or licensure.
4
Work in hospitals or clinics or for Health Management Organizations (HMOs), dispensing prescriptions, serving as a medical team consultant, or specializing in specific drug therapy areas, such as onco...
5
Order and purchase pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs, maintaining stock and storing and handling it properly.
6
Plan, implement, or maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, or labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal.
7
Assess the identity, strength, or purity of medications.
Tasks are ranked by their AI resilience, with the most resilient tasks shown first. Core tasks are essential functions of this occupation, while supplemental tasks provide additional context.
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