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Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
Appraise automobile or other vehicle damage to determine repair costs for insurance claim settlement. Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost or cost estimates and recommendations. May seek agreement with automotive repair shop on repair costs.
7 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Evaluate practicality of repair as opposed to payment of market value of vehicle before accident.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Review repair cost estimates with automobile repair shop to secure agreement on cost of repairs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Examine damaged vehicle to determine extent of structural, body, mechanical, electrical, or interior damage.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost estimates and recommendations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Estimate parts and labor to repair damage, using standard automotive labor and parts cost manuals and knowledge of automotive repair.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Determine salvage value on total-loss vehicle.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Arrange to have damage appraised by another appraiser to resolve disagreement with shop on repair cost.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
50%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 84% 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
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.