Surveyors
The short answer
This job is expected to meaningfully change. AI can already assist with or automate many of its tasks. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to grow over the next decade, with about 239 openings expected each year.
Where your job stands
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second most exposed fifth for how much AI could touch it. That doesn't mean the job goes away—it means more of its tasks are the kind AI can help with.
How much AI could touch this job
Looking at the job itself, AI could help with about a third of this job's tasks.
What this means
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second most exposed fifth, out of 656 jobs we could rank. Read more in the methodology.
What AI can and can’t help with in this job
The score comes from the real, day-to-day tasks of this job—not a guess about the job as a whole. Below are the tasks that matter most in this job, split by whether AI can help with them.
AI can help with or automate about 88% of the tasks in this job.
Tasks AI can help with or automate
Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.
AI could do much of this on its own
Analyze control or survey data to ensure adherence to project specifications or land survey standards.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Tasks AI can't do much of
Calculate the exact horizontal and vertical position of points on the Earth's surface.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Compute horizontal and vertical coordinates of control networks, using direct leveling or other geodetic survey techniques, such as triangulation, trilateration, and traversing, to establish features of the Earth's surface.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS).
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
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