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Bus Drivers, School
Drive a school bus to transport students. Ensure adherence to safety rules. May assist students in boarding or exiting.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Comply with traffic regulations to operate vehicles in a safe and courteous manner.Mostly human for now
- 02Follow safety rules as students board and exit buses or cross streets near bus stops.Mostly human for now
- 03Check the condition of a vehicle's tires, brakes, windshield wipers, lights, oil, fuel, water, and safety equipment to ensure that everything is in working order.Mostly human for now
- 04Report any bus malfunctions or needed repairs.Mostly human for now
- 05Pick up and drop off students at regularly scheduled neighborhood locations, following strict time schedules.Mostly human for now
- 06Escort small children across roads and highways.Mostly human for now
- 07Drive gasoline, diesel, or electrically powered multi-passenger vehicles to transport students between neighborhoods, schools, and school activities.Mostly human for now
- 08Maintain order among students during trips to ensure safety.Mostly human for now
- 09Maintain knowledge of first-aid procedures.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Prepare and submit reports that may include the number of students or trips, hours worked, mileage, or fuel consumption.AI could speed this up a lot
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
32%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 47% 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 93% 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.
- Comply with traffic regulations to operate vehicles in a safe and courteous manner.
- Follow safety rules as students board and exit buses or cross streets near bus stops.
- Check the condition of a vehicle's tires, brakes, windshield wipers, lights, oil, fuel, water, and safety equipment to ensure that everything is in working order.