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Butchers and Meat Cutters
Cut, trim, or prepare consumer-sized portions of meat for use or sale in retail establishments.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Prepare and place meat cuts and products in display counter to appear attractive and catch the shopper's eye.Mostly human for now
- 02Wrap, weigh, label, and price cuts of meat.Mostly human for now
- 03Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare in cooking form.Mostly human for now
- 04Prepare special cuts of meat ordered by customers.Mostly human for now
- 05Receive, inspect, and store meat upon delivery to ensure meat quality.Mostly human for now
- 06Estimate requirements and order or requisition meat supplies to maintain inventories.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Shape, lace, and tie roasts, using boning knife, skewer, and twine.Mostly human for now
- 08Record quantity of meat received and issued to cooks or keep records of meat sales.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Supervise other butchers or meat cutters.Mostly human for now
- 10Cure, smoke, tenderize, and preserve meat.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
13%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 66% 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 82% 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.
- Prepare and place meat cuts and products in display counter to appear attractive and catch the shopper's eye.
- Wrap, weigh, label, and price cuts of meat.
- Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare in cooking form.