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Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons
Help painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or stucco masons by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Clean work areas and equipment.Mostly human for now
- 02Supply or hold tools and materials.Mostly human for now
- 03Apply protective coverings, such as masking tape, to articles or areas that could be damaged or stained by work processes.Mostly human for now
- 04Smooth surfaces of articles to be painted, using sanding and buffing tools and equipment.Mostly human for now
- 05Erect scaffolding.Mostly human for now
- 06Perform support duties to assist painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or masons.Mostly human for now
- 07Fill cracks or breaks in surfaces of plaster articles or areas with putty or epoxy compounds.Mostly human for now
- 08Mix plaster, and carry plaster to plasterers.Mostly human for now
- 09Pour specified amounts of chemical solutions into stripping tanks.Mostly human for now
- 10Place articles to be stripped into stripping tanks.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
0%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 4% 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 75% 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.
- Clean work areas and equipment.
- Supply or hold tools and materials.
- Apply protective coverings, such as masking tape, to articles or areas that could be damaged or stained by work processes.