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Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance
Schedule and dispatch workers, work crews, equipment, or service vehicles for conveyance of materials, freight, or passengers, or for normal installation, service, or emergency repairs rendered outside the place of business. Duties may include using radio, telephone, or computer to transmit assignments and compiling statistics and reports on work progress.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Schedule or dispatch workers, work crews, equipment, or service vehicles to appropriate locations, according to customer requests, specifications, or needs, using radios or telephones.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Prepare daily work and run schedules.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Confer with customers or supervising personnel to address questions, problems, or requests for service or equipment.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Relay work orders, messages, or information to or from work crews, supervisors, or field inspectors, using telephones or two-way radios.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Receive or prepare work orders.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Record and maintain files or records of customer requests, work or services performed, charges, expenses, inventory, or other dispatch information.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Arrange for necessary repairs to restore service and schedules.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Monitor personnel or equipment locations and utilization to coordinate service and schedules.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Determine types or amounts of equipment, vehicles, materials, or personnel required, according to work orders or specifications.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Advise personnel about traffic problems, such as construction areas, accidents, congestion, weather conditions, or other hazards.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
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 loss23%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
67%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 75% 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 32% 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
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.