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Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers
Assist patrons at entertainment events by performing duties, such as collecting admission tickets and passes from patrons, assisting in finding seats, searching for lost articles, and helping patrons locate such facilities as restrooms and telephones.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Sell or collect admission tickets, passes, or facility memberships from patrons at entertainment events.Mostly human for now
- 02Clean facilities.Mostly human for now
- 03Provide assistance with patrons' special needs, such as helping those with wheelchairs.Mostly human for now
- 04Maintain order and ensure adherence to safety rules.Mostly human for now
- 05Examine tickets or passes to verify authenticity, using criteria such as color or date issued.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Refuse admittance to undesirable persons or persons without tickets or passes.Mostly human for now
- 07Guide patrons to exits or provide other instructions or assistance in case of emergency.Mostly human for now
- 08Greet patrons attending entertainment events.Mostly human for now
- 09Search for lost articles or for parents of lost children.Mostly human for now
- 10Settle seating disputes or help solve other customer concerns.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
14%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 74% 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 75% 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.
- Sell or collect admission tickets, passes, or facility memberships from patrons at entertainment events.
- Clean facilities.
- Provide assistance with patrons' special needs, such as helping those with wheelchairs.