◀ scan anotherLOW VISION THERAPISTS, ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY SPECIALISTS, AND VISION REHABILITATION THERAPISTSshare ⧉ OBSERVED IN REAL USE · Anthropic 2026
1%
of this role’s work is already showing up in real Claude usage (Anthropic Economic Index).
Lightly singed at worst. Carry on.
28% of this role’s O*NET tasks are within reach of today’s AI. That is the core-weighted exposure score from Eloundou et al. 2023 (“GPTs are GPTs”). It measures a capability ceiling, not a headcount forecast. Mostly safe. AI helps around the edges, but the job stays human.
WHAT AI CAN ALREADY DO
- Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes
- Participate in professional development activities, such as reading literature, continuing education, attending conferences, and collaborating with colleagues
- Recommend appropriate mobility devices or systems, such as human guides, dog guides, long canes, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs)
- Develop rehabilitation or instructional plans collaboratively with clients, based on results of assessments, needs, and goals
- Design instructional programs to improve communication, using devices such as slates and styluses, braillers, keyboards, adaptive handwriting devices, talking book machines, digital books, and optical character readers (OCRs)
WHAT IT STILL CAN’T
- Teach cane skills, including cane use with a guide, diagonal techniques, and two-point touches
- Train clients with visual impairments to use mobility devices or systems, such as human guides, dog guides, electronic travel aids (ETAs), and other adaptive mobility devices (AMDs)
- Train clients to use tactile, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and proprioceptive information
- Assess clients' functioning in areas such as vision, orientation and mobility skills, social and emotional issues, cognition, physical abilities, and personal goals
- Teach clients to travel independently, using a variety of actual or simulated travel situations or exercises
THE HONEST PART. A percentage is not a pink slip. High exposure usually means a role shrinks and shifts toward judgment, direction and responsibility: the parts a model can’t sign its name to. Exposure ≠ displacement. Breathe.
"My job is 28% cooked. What’s yours?"
SOURCES: O*NET 30.3 occupational tasks · Eloundou et al. 2023 (“GPTs are GPTs”,
arXiv:2303.10130) · Anthropic Economic Index 2026 (CC-BY) |
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last updated 2026-07-16