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Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers
Monitor recreational areas, such as pools, beaches, or ski slopes, to provide assistance and protection to participants.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Patrol or monitor recreational areas, such as trails, slopes, or swimming areas, on foot, in vehicles, or from towers.Mostly human for now
- 02Rescue distressed persons, using rescue techniques and equipment.Mostly human for now
- 03Contact emergency medical personnel in case of serious injury.Mostly human for now
- 04Examine injured persons and administer first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, if necessary, using training and medical supplies and equipment.Mostly human for now
- 05Warn recreational participants of inclement weather, unsafe areas, or illegal conduct.Mostly human for now
- 06Maintain quality of pool water by testing chemical levels.Mostly human for now
- 07Complete and maintain records of weather and beach conditions, emergency medical treatments performed, and other relevant incident information.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Instruct participants in skiing, swimming, or other recreational activities and provide safety precaution information.Mostly human for now
- 09Inspect recreational equipment, such as rope tows, T-bars, J-bars, or chair lifts, for safety hazards and damage or wear.Mostly human for now
- 10Inspect recreational facilities for cleanliness.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
8%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 6% 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 74% 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.
- Patrol or monitor recreational areas, such as trails, slopes, or swimming areas, on foot, in vehicles, or from towers.
- Rescue distressed persons, using rescue techniques and equipment.
- Contact emergency medical personnel in case of serious injury.