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Plasterers and Stucco Masons
Apply interior or exterior plaster, cement, stucco, or similar materials. May also set ornamental plaster.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Cover surfaces such as windows, doors, or sidewalks to protect from splashing.Mostly human for now
- 02Apply coats of plaster or stucco to walls, ceilings, or partitions of buildings, using trowels, brushes, or spray guns.Mostly human for now
- 03Clean and prepare surfaces for applications of plaster, cement, stucco, or similar materials, such as by drywall taping.Mostly human for now
- 04Create decorative textures in finish coat, using brushes or trowels, sand, pebbles, or stones.Mostly human for now
- 05Mix mortar and plaster to desired consistency or direct workers who perform mixing.Mostly human for now
- 06Clean job sites.Mostly human for now
- 07Rough the undercoat surface with a scratcher so the finish coat will adhere.Mostly human for now
- 08Set up scaffolds.Mostly human for now
- 09Cure freshly plastered surfaces.Mostly human for now
- 10Apply weatherproof, decorative coverings to exterior surfaces of buildings, such as by troweling or spraying on coats of stucco.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
8%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 31% 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 91% 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.
- Cover surfaces such as windows, doors, or sidewalks to protect from splashing.
- Apply coats of plaster or stucco to walls, ceilings, or partitions of buildings, using trowels, brushes, or spray guns.
- Rough the undercoat surface with a scratcher so the finish coat will adhere.