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Pourers and Casters, Metal
Operate hand-controlled mechanisms to pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds to produce castings or ingots.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds and forms to produce ingots or other castings, using ladles or hand-controlled mechanisms.Mostly human for now
- 02Read temperature gauges and observe color changes, adjusting furnace flames, torches, or electrical heating units as necessary to melt metal to specifications.Mostly human for now
- 03Remove solidified steel or slag from pouring nozzles, using long bars or oxygen burners.Mostly human for now
- 04Examine molds to ensure they are clean, smooth, and properly coated.Mostly human for now
- 05Collect samples, or signal workers to sample metal for analysis.Mostly human for now
- 06Load specified amounts of metal and flux into furnaces or clay crucibles.Mostly human for now
- 07Position equipment such as ladles, grinding wheels, pouring nozzles, or crucibles, or signal other workers to position equipment.Mostly human for now
- 08Skim slag or remove excess metal from ingots or equipment, using hand tools, strainers, rakes, or burners, collecting scrap for recycling.Mostly human for now
- 09Transport metal ingots to storage areas, using forklifts.Mostly human for now
- 10Assemble and embed cores in casting frames, using hand tools and equipment.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
0%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 16% 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 96% 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.
- Pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds and forms to produce ingots or other castings, using ladles or hand-controlled mechanisms.
- Read temperature gauges and observe color changes, adjusting furnace flames, torches, or electrical heating units as necessary to melt metal to specifications.
- Remove solidified steel or slag from pouring nozzles, using long bars or oxygen burners.