Will AI replace Office Machine Operators, Except Computer?
Estimated risk score: 36 out of 100
Lower replacement risk
Estimate from published task research, not reviewed by a person · how we estimate
Within about 19 points for 4 in 5 of the jobs we checked (17 to 55).
For the occupation as a whole, from ratings of its 18 O*NET tasks published in 2023 and calibrated to our hand scores. A specialty inside it can sit higher or lower.
O*NET-SOC 43-9071.00 · Office and Administrative Support
Tasks rated in 2023 as ones AI could do or speed up
Tasks a GPT-4-class model could do, or do in half the time or less: 6 of its 18 rated tasks. In O*NET’s words.
- Complete records of production, including work volumes and outputs, materials used, and any backlogs.
- Compute prices for services and receive payment, or provide supervisors with billing information.
- File and store completed documents.
- Read job orders to determine the type of work to be done, the quantities to be produced, and the materials needed.
- Maintain stock of supplies, and requisition any needed items.
- Sort, assemble, and proof completed work.
Tasks rated in 2023 as not sped up by AI
Tasks such a model was rated as not speeding up or taking over: 9 of its 18 rated tasks; the first 6 are shown. In O*NET’s words.
- Clean and file master copies or plates.
- Clean machines, perform minor repairs, and report major repair needs.
- Deliver completed work.
- Load machines with materials such as blank paper or film.
- Operate auxiliary machines such as collators, pad and tablet making machines, staplers, and paper punching, folding, cutting, and perforating machines.
- Place original copies in feed trays, feed originals into feed rolls, or position originals on tables beneath camera lenses.
What the job is
Operate one or more of a variety of office machines, such as photocopying, photographic, and duplicating machines, or other office machines.
Also called: Key Operator, Copy Center Operator, Copy Machine Operator, Microfilmer, Proof Clerk, Mimeographer, Multigrapher, Braille Coder.
Closest jobs we score by hand
In the same field (Office and Administrative Support). Different jobs, each scored by a person.
Source. This site includes information from the O*NET 30.1 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. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. (O*NET, CC BY 4.0.) Task ratings: Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock (2023), “GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models”, data used under the MIT licence (licence texts). Our change: we averaged the ratings over this occupation’s tasks and calibrated them to our 0–100 scale. It is not a prediction about any one person and not career advice. Disagree? Write to hello@yourstopwashit.com. How we estimate