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Surveyors
Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Prepare, or supervise preparation of, all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
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 loss0%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
49%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 50% 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 50% 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
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.