Seventy-nine per cent of food preparation work cannot be sped up. Baristas alone account for 3.1 million people.
Exposure means published research judged an AI could halve the time a task takes, at the same quality. It is not a prediction about any job. How to read this
Sixteen per cent reachable today, zero in the band needing a tool. That is unusual: almost every occupation in the report has a substantial middle band.
It means the annotators judged that no purpose-built software would halve the rest. There is nothing waiting to be built here.
Hosts and Hostesses are the least protected occupation in the group at 50 per cent, and Dishwashers are at 100 per cent.
Sixteen occupations, 323 tasks, so this is the thinnest group in the report after Legal. Treat the figures as indicative.
Solid is reachable with a chat window today, pale needs software building first, grey cannot be sped up. Task counts are shown because several of these rest on fewer than twenty.
Every chapter in this report argues that the middle band is a backlog. This is the one group where it is genuinely close to empty.
Which is a useful control. When a task list shows no middle band, that is the data saying there is nothing to build, and it is rare enough to be worth noticing when it happens.
There is no data here on what anybody actually does with AI. A dataset that appears to measure it was removed from this report because its meaning could not be stated. The reasoning is on the limits page.
The exposure ratings cover all 323 tasks in these 16 occupations with no gaps, and were made in 2023 against the model capabilities of that year. Read every figure as a floor.
Exposure ratings from Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs, Science 384, 1306–1308, 2024, used under the MIT licence. This page includes information from the O*NET Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. People Team AI has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Employment figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.