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Pest Control Workers
Apply or release chemical solutions or toxic gases and set traps to kill or remove pests and vermin that infest buildings and surrounding areas.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Record work activities performed.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Clean work site after completion of job.Mostly human for now
- 03Measure area dimensions requiring treatment, calculate fumigant requirements, and estimate cost for service.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Spray or dust chemical solutions, powders, or gases into rooms, onto clothing, furnishings, or wood, or over marshlands, ditches, or catch basins.Mostly human for now
- 05Recommend treatment and prevention methods for pest problems to clients.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Inspect premises to identify infestation source and extent of damage to property, wall, or roof porosity and access to infested locations.Mostly human for now
- 07Drive truck equipped with power spraying equipment.Mostly human for now
- 08Direct, or assist other workers in, treatment or extermination processes to eliminate or control rodents, insects, or weeds.Mostly human for now
- 09Study preliminary reports or diagrams of infested area and determine treatment type required to eliminate and prevent recurrence of infestation.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Cut or bore openings in building or surrounding concrete, access infested areas, insert nozzle, and inject pesticide to impregnate ground.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 loss5%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
25%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 36% 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 71% 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.
- Clean work site after completion of job.
- Spray or dust chemical solutions, powders, or gases into rooms, onto clothing, furnishings, or wood, or over marshlands, ditches, or catch basins.
- Inspect premises to identify infestation source and extent of damage to property, wall, or roof porosity and access to infested locations.