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Hearing Aid Specialists
Select and fit hearing aids for customers. Administer and interpret tests of hearing. Assess hearing instrument efficacy. Take ear impressions and prepare, design, and modify ear molds.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.Mostly human for now
- 02Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.Mostly human for now
- 03Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.Mostly human for now
- 05Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.Mostly human for now
- 06Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.Mostly human for now
- 08Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in audiology.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.Mostly human for now
- 10Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
20%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 29% 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
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.
- Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.
- Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.
- Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.