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Paramedics
Administer basic or advanced emergency medical care and assess injuries and illnesses. May administer medication intravenously, use equipment such as EKGs, or administer advanced life support to sick or injured individuals.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Perform emergency cardiac care, such as cardioversion and manual defibrillation.Mostly human for now
- 02Perform emergency invasive intervention before delivering patient to an acute care facility.Mostly human for now
- 03Coordinate work with other emergency medical team members or police or fire department personnel.Mostly human for now
- 04Assess nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Comfort and reassure patients.Mostly human for now
- 06Administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings.Mostly human for now
- 07Operate equipment, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), external defibrillators, or bag valve mask resuscitators, in advanced life support environments.Mostly human for now
- 08Perform emergency pharmacological interventions.Mostly human for now
- 09Administer drugs, orally or by injection, or perform intravenous procedures.Mostly human for now
- 10Attend training classes to maintain certification licensure, keep abreast of new developments in the field, or maintain existing knowledge.AI could speed this up a lot
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
15%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 21% 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 41% 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.
- Perform emergency cardiac care, such as cardioversion and manual defibrillation.
- Perform emergency invasive intervention before delivering patient to an acute care facility.
- Coordinate work with other emergency medical team members or police or fire department personnel.