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Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
Design, fabricate, adjust, repair, or appraise jewelry, gold, silver, other precious metals, or gems.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Clean and polish metal items and jewelry pieces, using jewelers' tools, polishing wheels, and chemical baths.Mostly human for now
- 02Smooth soldered joints and rough spots, using hand files and emery paper, and polish smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire.Mostly human for now
- 03Create jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, platinum, and precious or semiprecious stones.Mostly human for now
- 04Cut and file pieces of jewelry such as rings, brooches, bracelets, and lockets.Mostly human for now
- 05Examine assembled or finished products to ensure conformance to specifications, using magnifying glasses or precision measuring instruments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Make repairs, such as enlarging or reducing ring sizes, soldering pieces of jewelry together, and replacing broken clasps and mountings.Mostly human for now
- 07Compute costs of labor and materials to determine production costs of products and articles.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Position stones and metal pieces, and set, mount, and secure items in place, using setting and hand tools.Mostly human for now
- 09Grade stones based on their color, perfection, and quality of cut.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Select and acquire metals and gems for designs.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
18%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 59% 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 and polish metal items and jewelry pieces, using jewelers' tools, polishing wheels, and chemical baths.
- Smooth soldered joints and rough spots, using hand files and emery paper, and polish smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire.
- Create jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, platinum, and precious or semiprecious stones.