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Animal Control Workers
Handle animals for the purpose of investigations of mistreatment, or control of abandoned, dangerous, or unattended animals.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Write reports of activities, and maintain files of impoundments and dispositions of animals.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Investigate reports of animal attacks or animal cruelty, interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, and writing reports.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Examine animals for injuries or malnutrition, and arrange for any necessary medical treatment.Mostly human for now
- 04Contact animal owners to inform them that their pets are at animal holding facilities.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Educate the public about animal welfare, and animal control laws and regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Remove captured animals from animal-control service vehicles and place animals in shelter cages or other enclosures.Mostly human for now
- 07Answer inquiries from the public concerning animal control operations.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Capture and remove stray, uncontrolled, or abused animals from undesirable conditions, using nets, nooses, or tranquilizer darts as necessary.Mostly human for now
- 09Prepare for prosecutions related to animal treatment, and give evidence in court.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Supply animals with food, water, and personal care.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
35%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 68% 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 50% 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.
- Examine animals for injuries or malnutrition, and arrange for any necessary medical treatment.
- Remove captured animals from animal-control service vehicles and place animals in shelter cages or other enclosures.
- Capture and remove stray, uncontrolled, or abused animals from undesirable conditions, using nets, nooses, or tranquilizer darts as necessary.