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Packers and Packagers, Hand
Pack or package by hand a wide variety of products and materials.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Examine and inspect containers, materials, or products to ensure that product quality and packing specifications are met.Mostly human for now
- 02Measure, weigh, and count products and materials.Mostly human for now
- 03Record product, packaging, and order information on specified forms and records.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Seal containers or materials, using glues, fasteners, nails, and hand tools.Mostly human for now
- 05Assemble, line, and pad cartons, crates, and containers, using hand tools.Mostly human for now
- 06Obtain, move, and sort products, materials, containers, and orders, using hand tools.Mostly human for now
- 07Mark and label containers, container tags, or products, using marking tools.Mostly human for now
- 08Clean containers, materials, supplies, or work areas, using cleaning solutions and hand tools.Mostly human for now
- 09Remove completed or defective products or materials, placing them on moving equipment, such as conveyors, or in specified areas, such as loading docks.Mostly human for now
- 10Place or pour products or materials into containers, using hand tools and equipment, or fill containers from spouts or chutes.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
10%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 18% 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 97% 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.
- Examine and inspect containers, materials, or products to ensure that product quality and packing specifications are met.
- Measure, weigh, and count products and materials.
- Remove completed or defective products or materials, placing them on moving equipment, such as conveyors, or in specified areas, such as loading docks.