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Animal Breeders
Select and breed animals according to their genealogy, characteristics, and offspring. May require knowledge of artificial insemination techniques and equipment use. May involve keeping records on heats, birth intervals, or pedigree.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Feed and water animals, and clean and disinfect pens, cages, yards, and hutches.Mostly human for now
- 02Observe animals in heat to detect approach of estrus and exercise animals to induce or hasten estrus, if necessary.Mostly human for now
- 03Treat minor injuries and ailments and contact veterinarians to obtain treatment for animals with serious illnesses or injuries.Mostly human for now
- 04Purchase and stock supplies of feed and medicines.Mostly human for now
- 05Select animals to be bred, and semen specimens to be used, according to knowledge of animals, genealogies, traits, and desired offspring characteristics.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Examine animals to detect symptoms of illness or injury.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Build hutches, pens, and fenced yards.Mostly human for now
- 08Record animal characteristics such as weights, growth patterns, and diets.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Brand, tattoo, or tag animals to allow animal identification.Mostly human for now
- 10Arrange for sale of animals and eggs to hospitals, research centers, pet shops, and food processing plants.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
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 58% 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 83% 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.
- Feed and water animals, and clean and disinfect pens, cages, yards, and hutches.
- Observe animals in heat to detect approach of estrus and exercise animals to induce or hasten estrus, if necessary.
- Treat minor injuries and ailments and contact veterinarians to obtain treatment for animals with serious illnesses or injuries.