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How exposed to AI is a Slaughterers and Meat Packer?

Of the 15 tasks O*NET lists for slaughterers and meat packers, 0 could be done in half the time with a chat window today. 15 cannot be sped up at all. Here is which.

Exposure means published research judged an AI could halve the time a task takes, at the same quality. It does not mean the task stops needing a person. How to read this

Also called
Boning Room WorkerMeat PackagerMeat PackerMeat ProcessorMeat WrapperSaw ManSide PullerWrapper
Reachable today Needs software built first Cannot be sped up
15
tasks rated for this occupation
0%
hold a degree, from a survey of only 18
86k
people do this job in the US
104 of 107
least protected in production

Every task, and what AI can do with it

These are O*NET's task statements for this occupation, exactly as written, sorted into the three bands by the ratings behind this report. Nothing has been reworded.

Cannot be sped up

15
  • Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing
  • Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering
  • Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass
  • Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning
  • Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals
  • Stun animals prior to slaughtering
  • Skin sections of animals or whole animals
  • Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal
  • Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging
  • Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling
  • Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls
  • Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products
  • Trim, clean, or cure animal hides
  • Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts
  • Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards
What this does not say

This is not a prediction about your job

Nobody surveyed an employer. Tasks are counted equally, so a percentage here is a share of the list rather than a share of your week. And the ratings were made in 2023, which makes every figure a floor rather than a ceiling.

It must never be used to select anyone for redundancy. The full limits are here.

Where to go next

This is the standard task list for the title. The useful next question is which of the tasks you actually do should go near AI, and which should not.

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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.