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Bartenders
Mix and serve drinks to patrons, directly or through waitstaff.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Clean glasses, utensils, and bar equipment.Mostly human for now
- 02Collect money for drinks served.Mostly human for now
- 03Balance cash receipts.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Check identification of customers to verify age requirements for purchase of alcohol.Mostly human for now
- 05Clean bars, work areas, and tables.Mostly human for now
- 06Attempt to limit problems and liability related to customers' excessive drinking by taking steps such as persuading customers to stop drinking, or ordering taxis or other transportation for intoxicated patrons.Mostly human for now
- 07Take beverage orders from serving staff or directly from patrons.Mostly human for now
- 08Serve wine, and bottled or draft beer.Mostly human for now
- 09Plan, organize, and control the operations of a cocktail lounge or bar.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Stock bar with beer, wine, liquor, and related supplies such as ice, glassware, napkins, or straws.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
19%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 62% 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 78% 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.
- Clean glasses, utensils, and bar equipment.
- Collect money for drinks served.
- Check identification of customers to verify age requirements for purchase of alcohol.