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Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials
Officiate at competitive athletic or sporting events. Detect infractions of rules and decide penalties according to established regulations. Includes all sporting officials, referees, and competition judges.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Officiate at sporting events, games, or competitions, to maintain standards of play and to ensure that game rules are observed.Mostly human for now
- 02Inspect game sites for compliance with regulations or safety requirements.Mostly human for now
- 03Resolve claims of rule infractions or complaints by participants and assess any necessary penalties, according to regulations.Mostly human for now
- 04Signal participants or other officials to make them aware of infractions or to otherwise regulate play or competition.Mostly human for now
- 05Teach and explain the rules and regulations governing a specific sport.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Inspect sporting equipment or examine participants to ensure compliance with event and safety regulations.Mostly human for now
- 07Report to regulating organizations regarding sporting activities, complaints made, and actions taken or needed, such as fines or other disciplinary actions.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Confer with other sporting officials, coaches, players, and facility managers to provide information, coordinate activities, and discuss problems.Mostly human for now
- 09Judge performances in sporting competitions to award points, impose scoring penalties, and determine results.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Verify scoring calculations before competition winners are announced.AI could speed this up a lot
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
31%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 25% 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 39% 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.
- Officiate at sporting events, games, or competitions, to maintain standards of play and to ensure that game rules are observed.
- Inspect game sites for compliance with regulations or safety requirements.
- Resolve claims of rule infractions or complaints by participants and assess any necessary penalties, according to regulations.