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Slaughterers and Meat Packers
Perform nonroutine or precision functions involving the preparation of large portions of meat. Work may include specialized slaughtering tasks, cutting standard or premium cuts of meat for marketing, making sausage, or wrapping meats. Work typically occurs in slaughtering, meat packing, or wholesale establishments.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.Mostly human for now
- 02Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.Mostly human for now
- 03Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.Mostly human for now
- 04Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.Mostly human for now
- 05Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.Mostly human for now
- 06Stun animals prior to slaughtering.Mostly human for now
- 07Skin sections of animals or whole animals.Mostly human for now
- 08Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.Mostly human for now
- 09Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.Mostly human for now
- 10Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.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 32% 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 78% 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.
- Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
- Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.