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Customs and Border Protection Officers
Investigate and inspect persons, common carriers, goods, and merchandise, arriving in or departing from the United States or between states to detect violations of immigration and customs laws and regulations.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Examine immigration applications, visas, and passports and interview persons to determine eligibility for admission, residence, and travel in the U.S.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Detain persons found to be in violation of customs or immigration laws and arrange for legal action, such as deportation.Mostly human for now
- 03Inspect cargo, baggage, and personal articles entering or leaving U.S. for compliance with revenue laws and U.S. customs regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Locate and seize contraband, undeclared merchandise, and vehicles, aircraft, or boats that contain such merchandise.Mostly human for now
- 05Interpret and explain laws and regulations to travelers, prospective immigrants, shippers, and manufacturers.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Institute civil and criminal prosecutions and cooperate with other law enforcement agencies in the investigation and prosecution of those in violation of immigration or customs laws.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Testify regarding decisions at immigration appeals or in federal court.Mostly human for now
- 08Record and report job-related activities, findings, transactions, violations, discrepancies, and decisions.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Determine duty and taxes to be paid on goods.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Collect samples of merchandise for examination, appraisal, or testing.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 loss12%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
45%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 29% 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.
- Detain persons found to be in violation of customs or immigration laws and arrange for legal action, such as deportation.
- Locate and seize contraband, undeclared merchandise, and vehicles, aircraft, or boats that contain such merchandise.
- Testify regarding decisions at immigration appeals or in federal court.