How exposed to AI is the job of Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians?

4.8% of the weighted task load of Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians is exposed, meaning work current AI systems can produce with little structural friction. A further 7.2% is assisted work and 88.1% is untouched. That places it 5th out of 923 occupations, rank 878, in release v2026.Q3 of the Task Exposure Index.

Occupation · SOC 53-3011.00 · Job Zone 2

AI exposure: Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians

Q: Will AI replace Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians?

The index does not measure displacement. It measures what current AI systems can produce and what stands in the way. Whether exposed work becomes a lost job depends on firm economics, regulation and organisational inertia, none of which this index models.

Q: Which tasks of a Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians are most exposed to AI?

Of 11 tasks O*NET records for this occupation, 0 are exposed, 1 assisted and 10 untouched. The full task-by-task breakdown is published on this page.

Drive ambulance or assist ambulance driver in transporting sick, injured, or convalescent persons. Assist in lifting patients.

Reading this score

computed

Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians is among the least exposed occupations measured, at 4.8% of weighted task load, rank 878 of 923. 88.1% of this job is work current AI systems cannot produce at all. That is not a statement about skill or value. It is a statement about what these systems can and cannot do.

What holds the line here is embodiment. Across this occupation's 11 tasks it averages 2.64 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work has to happen in physical space. A language model cannot move matter. Until the robotics to do this work is both good enough and cheap enough to deploy widely, capability in software does not reach it.

The most exposed thing this job does is Report facts concerning accidents or emergencies to hospital personnel or law enforcement..., at 30.0%. The least is Restrain or shackle violent patients, at 0.0%. A gap of 30.0% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.

Within transportation and material moving occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 24.3% across the group's 52 roles, with 50 scoring higher. Being in an exposed family does not make a particular job exposed, and the reverse holds too.

What would move this score. Of 11 tasks, 0 are currently banded exposed, 1 assisted and 10 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take robotics cheap and reliable enough to deploy at scale, not a better language model. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.

Where the score comes from

judged

Every task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.

Dimension	Mean	Scale
Capability	0.45	0-4
Embodiment	2.64	0-3
Presence	1.55	0-3
Accountability	1.00	0-3
Context	1.36	0-3
Verification cost	1.45	0-3

Task by task

11 tasks, O*NET 31.0

Task	Exposed	Assisted	Untouched	Importance	Band
Report facts concerning accidents or emergencies to hospital personnel or law enforcement officials.	30.0%	45.0%	25.0%	4.46	assisted
Earn and maintain appropriate certifications.	13.3%	11.7%	75.0%	4.68	untouched
Drive ambulances or assist ambulance drivers in transporting sick, injured, or convalescent persons.	6.7%	18.3%	75.0%	4.65	untouched
Place patients on stretchers, and load stretchers into ambulances, usually with assistance from other attendants.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	4.77	untouched
Replace supplies and disposable items on ambulances.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	4.72	untouched
Accompany and assist emergency medical technicians on calls.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	4.69	untouched
Administer first aid, such as bandaging, splinting, or administering oxygen.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	4.62	untouched
Remove and replace soiled linens or equipment to maintain sanitary conditions.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	4.59	untouched
Clean and wash rigs, ambulances, or equipment.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.96	untouched
Perform minor maintenance on emergency medical services vehicles, such as ambulances.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.85	untouched
Restrain or shackle violent patients.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.81	untouched

Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.

Occupations either side of this one

The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.

Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.

What this means in practice

Most of this work is not reachable by current systems, so the immediate pressure is on the administrative edges of the role rather than its core: the scheduling, the reporting, the written records. That is where time is recovered.