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Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
Repair, maintain, or install computers, word processing systems, automated teller machines, and electronic office machines, such as duplicating and fax machines.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Travel to customers' stores or offices to service machines or to provide emergency repair service.Mostly human for now
- 02Reassemble machines after making repairs or replacing parts.Mostly human for now
- 03Advise customers concerning equipment operation, maintenance, or programming.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Maintain parts inventories and order any additional parts needed for repairs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Converse with customers to determine details of equipment problems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Disassemble machines to examine parts, such as wires, gears, or bearings for wear or defects, using hand or power tools and measuring devices.Mostly human for now
- 07Maintain records of equipment maintenance work or repairs.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Repair, adjust, or replace electrical or mechanical components or parts, using hand tools, power tools, or soldering or welding equipment.Mostly human for now
- 09Operate machines to test functioning of parts or mechanisms.Mostly human for now
- 10Assemble machines according to specifications, using hand or power tools and measuring devices.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 loss11%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
37%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 54% 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 64% 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.
- Travel to customers' stores or offices to service machines or to provide emergency repair service.
- Reassemble machines after making repairs or replacing parts.
- Disassemble machines to examine parts, such as wires, gears, or bearings for wear or defects, using hand or power tools and measuring devices.