Slaughterers and Meat Packers
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 73 openings expected each year.
Where your job stands
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the 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
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 least 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
This job is in the 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.
Almost none of this job's tasks are the kind AI can help with or automate.
Tasks AI can't do much of
Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
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