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Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
Use hands or hand tools to perform routine cutting and trimming of meat, poultry, and seafood.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Use knives, cleavers, meat saws, bandsaws, or other equipment to perform meat cutting and trimming.Mostly human for now
- 02Weigh meats and tag containers for weight and contents.Mostly human for now
- 03Inspect meat products for defects, bruises or blemishes and remove them along with any excess fat.Mostly human for now
- 04Cut and trim meat to prepare for packing.Mostly human for now
- 05Separate meats and byproducts into specified containers and seal containers.Mostly human for now
- 06Process primal parts into cuts that are ready for retail use.Mostly human for now
- 07Prepare ready-to-heat foods by filleting meat or fish or cutting it into bite-sized pieces, preparing and adding vegetables or applying sauces or breading.Mostly human for now
- 08Clean, trim, slice, and section carcasses for future processing.Mostly human for now
- 09Remove parts, such as skin, feathers, scales or bones, from carcass.Mostly human for now
- 10Obtain and distribute specified meat or carcass.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 61% 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 80% 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.
- Use knives, cleavers, meat saws, bandsaws, or other equipment to perform meat cutting and trimming.
- Weigh meats and tag containers for weight and contents.
- Process primal parts into cuts that are ready for retail use.