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Bakers
Mix and bake ingredients to produce breads, rolls, cookies, cakes, pies, pastries, or other baked goods.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Measure or weigh flour or other ingredients to prepare batters, doughs, fillings, or icings, using scales or graduated containers.Mostly human for now
- 02Set oven temperatures, and place items into hot ovens for baking.Mostly human for now
- 03Check products for quality, and identify damaged or expired goods.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Check equipment to ensure that it meets health and safety regulations, and perform maintenance or cleaning, as necessary.Mostly human for now
- 05Adapt the quantity of ingredients to match the amount of items to be baked.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Place dough in pans, molds, or on sheets, and bake in production ovens or on grills.Mostly human for now
- 07Observe color of products being baked, and adjust oven temperatures, humidity, or conveyor speeds accordingly.Mostly human for now
- 08Set time and speed controls for mixing machines, blending machines, or steam kettles so that ingredients will be mixed or cooked according to instructions.Mostly human for now
- 09Combine measured ingredients in bowls of mixing, blending, or cooking machinery.Mostly human for now
- 10Check the quality of raw materials to ensure that standards and specifications are met.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
27%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 27% 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 79% 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.
- Measure or weigh flour or other ingredients to prepare batters, doughs, fillings, or icings, using scales or graduated containers.
- Set oven temperatures, and place items into hot ovens for baking.
- Check equipment to ensure that it meets health and safety regulations, and perform maintenance or cleaning, as necessary.