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Home Appliance Repairers
Repair, adjust, or install all types of electric or gas household appliances, such as refrigerators, washers, dryers, and ovens.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Bill customers for repair work, and collect payment.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Observe and examine appliances during operation to detect specific malfunctions such as loose parts or leaking fluid.Mostly human for now
- 03Talk to customers or refer to work orders to establish the nature of appliance malfunctions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Refer to schematic drawings, product manuals, and troubleshooting guides to diagnose and repair problems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Trace electrical circuits, following diagrams, and conduct tests with circuit testers and other equipment to locate shorts and grounds.Mostly human for now
- 06Replace worn and defective parts such as switches, bearings, transmissions, belts, gears, circuit boards, or defective wiring.Mostly human for now
- 07Provide repair cost estimates, and recommend whether appliance repair or replacement is a better choice.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Disassemble appliances so that problems can be diagnosed and repairs can be made.Mostly human for now
- 09Respond to emergency calls for problems such as gas leaks.Mostly human for now
- 10Service and repair domestic electrical or gas appliances, such as clothes washers, refrigerators, stoves, and dryers.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
14%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 39% 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 64% 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.
- Observe and examine appliances during operation to detect specific malfunctions such as loose parts or leaking fluid.
- Trace electrical circuits, following diagrams, and conduct tests with circuit testers and other equipment to locate shorts and grounds.
- Replace worn and defective parts such as switches, bearings, transmissions, belts, gears, circuit boards, or defective wiring.