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Phlebotomists
Draw blood for tests, transfusions, donations, or research. May explain the procedure to patients and assist in the recovery of patients with adverse reactions.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Confirm the identities of patients by verifying their personal information.No rating yet
- 02Match laboratory requisition forms to specimen tubes.Mostly human for now
- 03Dispose of contaminated sharps, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, and policies.Mostly human for now
- 04Dispose of blood or other biohazard fluids or tissue, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, or policies.Mostly human for now
- 05Collect specimens at specific time intervals for tests, such as those assessing therapeutic drug levels.Mostly human for now
- 06Draw blood from veins by vacuum tube, syringe, or butterfly venipuncture methods.Mostly human for now
- 07Organize or clean blood-drawing trays, ensuring that all instruments are sterile and all needles, syringes, or related items are of first-time use.Mostly human for now
- 08Enter patient, specimen, insurance, or billing information into computer.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Conduct standards tests, such as blood alcohol, blood culture, oral glucose tolerance, glucose screening, blood smears, or peak and trough drug levels tests.Mostly human for now
- 10Process blood or other fluid samples for further analysis by other medical professionals.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
18%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 3% 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 88% 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.
- Match laboratory requisition forms to specimen tubes.
- Dispose of contaminated sharps, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, and policies.
- Dispose of blood or other biohazard fluids or tissue, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, or policies.