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Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Set up, operate, or tend machines to mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to requirements.Mostly human for now
- 02Read work orders to determine production specifications or information.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Observe production or monitor equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.Mostly human for now
- 04Mix or blend ingredients by starting machines and mixing for specified times.Mostly human for now
- 05Stop mixing or blending machines when specified product qualities are obtained and open valves and start pumps to transfer mixtures.Mostly human for now
- 06Compound or process ingredients or dyes, according to formulas.Mostly human for now
- 07Examine materials, ingredients, or products visually or with hands to ensure conformance to established standards.Mostly human for now
- 08Operate or tend machines to mix or blend any of a wide variety of materials, such as spices, dough batter, tobacco, fruit juices, chemicals, livestock feed, food products, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.Mostly human for now
- 09Dump or pour specified amounts of materials into machinery or equipment.Mostly human for now
- 10Record operational or production data on specified forms.People already use AI for this at work
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
11%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 22% 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 90% 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.
- Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to requirements.
- Observe production or monitor equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.
- Mix or blend ingredients by starting machines and mixing for specified times.