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Bailiffs
Maintain order in courts of law.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Screen persons entering courthouse using magnetometers, x-ray machines, and other devices to collect and retain unauthorized firearms and other contraband.Mostly human for now
- 02Escort prisoners to and from courthouse and maintain custody of prisoners during court proceedings.Mostly human for now
- 03Maintain order in courtroom during trial and guard jury from outside contact.Mostly human for now
- 04Provide security by patrolling interior and exterior of courthouse and escorting judges and other court employees.Mostly human for now
- 05Guard lodging of sequestered jury.Mostly human for now
- 06Enforce courtroom rules of behavior and warn persons not to smoke or disturb court procedure.Mostly human for now
- 07Arrest persons in court when arrest warrants have been issued.Mostly human for now
- 08Report need for police or medical assistance to sheriff's office.Mostly human for now
- 09Check courtroom for security and cleanliness and assure availability of sundry supplies, such as notepads, for use by judge, jurors, and attorneys.Mostly human for now
- 10Stop people from entering courtroom while judge charges jury.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
4%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 70% 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 61% 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.
- Screen persons entering courthouse using magnetometers, x-ray machines, and other devices to collect and retain unauthorized firearms and other contraband.
- Escort prisoners to and from courthouse and maintain custody of prisoners during court proceedings.
- Maintain order in courtroom during trial and guard jury from outside contact.