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EXPOSURE TO AI
6%
RESILIENT
OBSERVED IN REAL USE · Anthropic 2026
0%
of this role’s work is already showing up in real Claude usage (Anthropic Economic Index).
Certified irreplaceable. For now, gloriously human.

6% 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. Certified hard to automate. Today’s AI barely touches the core of this one.

WHAT AI CAN ALREADY DO
  • Estimate the costs of requested products or services such as custom footwear or footwear repair, and receive payment from customers
  • Draw patterns, using measurements, designs, plaster casts, or customer specifications, and position or outline patterns on work pieces
  • Select materials and patterns, and trace patterns onto materials to be cut out
  • Check the texture, color, and strength of leather to ensure that it is adequate for a particular purpose
WHAT IT STILL CAN’T
  • Dye, soak, polish, paint, stamp, stitch, stain, buff, or engrave leather or other materials to obtain desired effects, decorations, or shapes
  • Cut out parts, following patterns or outlines, using knives, shears, scissors, or machine presses
  • Construct, decorate, or repair leather products according to specifications, using sewing machines, needles and thread, leather lacing, glue, clamps, hand tools, or rivets
  • Repair and recondition leather products such as trunks, luggage, shoes, saddles, belts, purses, and baseball gloves
  • Align and stitch or glue materials such as fabric, fleece, leather, or wood, to join parts
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.
SOURCES: O*NET 30.3 occupational tasks · Eloundou et al. 2023 (“GPTs are GPTs”,arXiv:2303.10130) · Anthropic Economic Index 2026 (CC-BY)  | how this is calculated  | last updated 2026-07-16