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Fire Inspectors and Investigators
Inspect buildings to detect fire hazards and enforce local ordinances and state laws, or investigate and gather facts to determine cause of fires and explosions.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Prepare and maintain reports of investigation results, and records of convicted arsonists and arson suspects.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Testify in court cases involving fires, suspected arson, and false alarms.Mostly human for now
- 03Package collected pieces of evidence in securely closed containers, such as bags, crates, or boxes, to protect them.Mostly human for now
- 04Conduct inspections and acceptance testing of newly installed fire protection systems.Mostly human for now
- 05Analyze evidence and other information to determine probable cause of fire or explosion.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Photograph damage and evidence related to causes of fires or explosions to document investigation findings.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Inspect buildings to locate hazardous conditions and fire code violations, such as accumulations of combustible material, electrical wiring problems, and inadequate or non-functional fire exits.Mostly human for now
- 08Examine fire sites and collect evidence such as glass, metal fragments, charred wood, and accelerant residue for use in determining the cause of a fire.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Instruct children about the dangers of fire.Mostly human for now
- 10Conduct fire code compliance follow-ups to ensure that corrective actions have been taken in cases where violations were found.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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
29%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 35% 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.
- Testify in court cases involving fires, suspected arson, and false alarms.
- Package collected pieces of evidence in securely closed containers, such as bags, crates, or boxes, to protect them.
- Conduct inspections and acceptance testing of newly installed fire protection systems.