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School Bus Monitors
Maintain order among students on a school bus. Duties include helping students safely board and exit and communicating behavioral problems. May perform pretrip and posttrip inspections and prepare for and assist in emergency evacuations.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Buckle seatbelts or fasten wheelchair tie-down straps to secure passengers for transportation.Mostly human for now
- 02Escort young children across roads or highways.Mostly human for now
- 03Assist children with disabilities or children with psychological, emotional, or behavioral issues with boarding and exiting the school bus.Mostly human for now
- 04Monitor the conduct of students to maintain discipline and safety.Mostly human for now
- 05Evacuate students from the school bus in emergency situations.Mostly human for now
- 06Direct students boarding and exiting the school bus.Mostly human for now
- 07Direct students evacuating the bus during safety drills.Mostly human for now
- 08Operate a wheelchair lift to load or unload wheelchairs.Mostly human for now
- 09Report delays, accidents, or other traffic and transportation situations to dispatchers or other bus drivers, using phones or mobile two-way radios.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Prevent or defuse altercations between students.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 loss17%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 85% 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 37% 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.
- Buckle seatbelts or fasten wheelchair tie-down straps to secure passengers for transportation.
- Escort young children across roads or highways.
- Assist children with disabilities or children with psychological, emotional, or behavioral issues with boarding and exiting the school bus.