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Crossing Guards and Flaggers
Guide or control vehicular or pedestrian traffic at such places as streets, schools, railroad crossings, or construction sites.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Direct or escort pedestrians across streets, stopping traffic, as necessary.Mostly human for now
- 02Guide or control vehicular or pedestrian traffic at such places as street and railroad crossings and construction sites.Mostly human for now
- 03Monitor traffic flow to locate safe gaps through which pedestrians can cross streets.Mostly human for now
- 04Communicate traffic and crossing rules and other information to students and adults.Mostly human for now
- 05Direct traffic movement or warn of hazards, using signs, flags, lanterns, and hand signals.Mostly human for now
- 06Report unsafe behavior of children to school officials.Mostly human for now
- 07Record license numbers of vehicles disregarding traffic signals, and report infractions to appropriate authorities.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Distribute traffic control signs and markers at designated points.Mostly human for now
- 09Stop speeding vehicles to warn drivers of traffic laws.Mostly human for now
- 10Learn the location and purpose of street traffic signs within assigned patrol areas.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
11%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 64% 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 72% 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.
- Direct or escort pedestrians across streets, stopping traffic, as necessary.
- Guide or control vehicular or pedestrian traffic at such places as street and railroad crossings and construction sites.
- Monitor traffic flow to locate safe gaps through which pedestrians can cross streets.