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Anesthesiologist Assistants
Assist anesthesiologists in the administration of anesthesia for surgical and non-surgical procedures. Monitor patient status and provide patient care during surgical treatment.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Provide airway management interventions including tracheal intubation, fiber optics, or ventilary support.Mostly human for now
- 02Assist anesthesiologists in monitoring of patients, including electrocardiogram (EKG), direct arterial pressure, central venous pressure, arterial blood gas, hematocrit, or routine measurement of temperature, respiration, blood pressure or heart rate.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Control anesthesia levels during procedures.Mostly human for now
- 04Administer anesthetic, adjuvant, or accessory drugs under the direction of an anesthesiologist.Mostly human for now
- 05Pretest and calibrate anesthesia delivery systems and monitors.Mostly human for now
- 06Respond to emergency situations by providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), or pediatric advanced life support (PALS).Mostly human for now
- 07Collect and document patients' pre-anesthetic health histories.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Administer blood, blood products, or supportive fluids.Mostly human for now
- 09Verify availability of operating room supplies, medications, and gases.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Assist anesthesiologists in performing anesthetic procedures, such as epidural or spinal injections.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
17%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 10% 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 71% 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.
- Provide airway management interventions including tracheal intubation, fiber optics, or ventilary support.
- Control anesthesia levels during procedures.
- Administer anesthetic, adjuvant, or accessory drugs under the direction of an anesthesiologist.