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Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians
Drive ambulance or assist ambulance driver in transporting sick, injured, or convalescent persons. Assist in lifting patients.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Place patients on stretchers, and load stretchers into ambulances, usually with assistance from other attendants.Mostly human for now
- 02Replace supplies and disposable items on ambulances.Mostly human for now
- 03Accompany and assist emergency medical technicians on calls.Mostly human for now
- 04Earn and maintain appropriate certifications.Mostly human for now
- 05Drive ambulances or assist ambulance drivers in transporting sick, injured, or convalescent persons.Mostly human for now
- 06Administer first aid, such as bandaging, splinting, or administering oxygen.Mostly human for now
- 07Remove and replace soiled linens or equipment to maintain sanitary conditions.Mostly human for now
- 08Report facts concerning accidents or emergencies to hospital personnel or law enforcement officials.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Clean and wash rigs, ambulances, or equipment.Mostly human for now
- 10Perform minor maintenance on emergency medical services vehicles, such as ambulances.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
9%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 9% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 90% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Place patients on stretchers, and load stretchers into ambulances, usually with assistance from other attendants.
- Replace supplies and disposable items on ambulances.
- Accompany and assist emergency medical technicians on calls.