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Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

The short answer

This job is less likely to change much. Most of the work is the kind AI can't help with. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to shrink over the next decade, with about 1,964 openings expected each year.

Step 1

Where your job stands

Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second least exposed fifth for how much AI could touch it. Most of what it involves isn't the kind of work AI can take over.

How much AI could touch this job

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Looking at the job itself, AI could help with a small part of this job's tasks.

What this means

Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second least exposed fifth, out of 656 jobs we could rank. Read more in the methodology.

Step 2

What AI can and can’t help with in this job

This job is in the second least exposed fifth of New York jobs for AI exposure. The tasks below show why: most of what it involves is work AI can't simply take over.

AI can help with or automate about 26% of the tasks in this job.

Tasks AI can help with or automate

  1. Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.

    AI could do much of this on its own

  2. Feel plants' leaves and note their coloring to detect the presence of insects or disease.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  3. Provide information and advice to the public regarding the selection, purchase, and care of products.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  4. Identify plants, pests, and weeds to determine the selection and application of pesticides and fertilizers.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  5. Record information about plants and plant growth.

    AI could do much of this on its own

Tasks AI can't do much of

  1. Sell and deliver plants and flowers to customers.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  2. Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  3. Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  4. Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  5. Regulate greenhouse conditions, and indoor and outdoor irrigation systems.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

Step 3

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