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Cashiers
Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions. May use electronic scanners, cash registers, or related equipment. May process credit or debit card transactions and validate checks.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.Mostly human for now
- 02Greet customers entering establishments.Mostly human for now
- 03Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.Mostly human for now
- 04Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Monitor checkout stations to ensure they have adequate cash available and are staffed appropriately.Mostly human for now
- 06Establish or identify prices of goods, services, or admission, and tabulate bills, using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.Mostly human for now
- 07Answer incoming phone calls.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Request information or assistance, using paging systems.Mostly human for now
- 10Help customers find the location of products.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 loss9%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
21%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 87% 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 87% 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.
- Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
- Greet customers entering establishments.
- Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
AI tools for your work
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