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Animal Trainers
Train animals for riding, harness, security, performance, or obedience, or for assisting persons with disabilities. Accustom animals to human voice and contact, and condition animals to respond to commands. Train animals according to prescribed standards for show or competition. May train animals to carry pack loads or work as part of pack team.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Cue or signal animals during performances.Mostly human for now
- 02Talk to or interact with animals to familiarize them to human voices or contact.Mostly human for now
- 03Conduct training programs to develop or maintain desired animal behaviors for competition, entertainment, obedience, security, riding, or related purposes.Mostly human for now
- 04Feed or exercise animals or provide other general care, such as cleaning or maintaining holding or performance areas.Mostly human for now
- 05Observe animals' physical conditions to detect illness or unhealthy conditions requiring medical care.Mostly human for now
- 06Evaluate animals to determine their temperaments, abilities, or aptitude for training.Mostly human for now
- 07Administer prescribed medications to animals.Mostly human for now
- 08Keep records documenting animal health, diet, or behavior.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Evaluate animals for trainability and ability to perform.Mostly human for now
- 10Advise animal owners regarding the purchase of specific animals.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
10%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 14% 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 52% 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.
- Cue or signal animals during performances.
- Talk to or interact with animals to familiarize them to human voices or contact.
- Conduct training programs to develop or maintain desired animal behaviors for competition, entertainment, obedience, security, riding, or related purposes.