AI exposure: Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers
Replace or repair broken windshields and window glass in motor vehicles.
Reading this score
computedAutomotive Glass Installers and Repairers is among the least exposed occupations measured, at 4.7% of weighted task load, rank 880 of 923. 93.0% 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 18 tasks it averages 2.83 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 Select appropriate tools, safety equipment, and parts, according to job requirements, at 55.0%. The least is Cool or warm glass in the event of temperature extremes, at 0.0%. A gap of 55.0% 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 installation, maintenance and repair occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 13.8% across the group's 50 roles, with 46 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 18 tasks, 1 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 17 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
judgedEvery 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 | 0.22 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 2.83 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.07 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.67 | 0-3 |
| Context | 0.99 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.06 | 0-3 |
Task by task
18 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Select appropriate tools, safety equipment, and parts, according to job requirements. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 4.51 | exposed |
| Obtain windshields or windows for specific automobile makes and models from stock and examine them for defects prior to installation. | 11.7% | 13.3% | 75.0% | 4.25 | untouched |
| Prime all scratches on pinchwelds with primer and allow to dry. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.40 | untouched |
| Remove all dirt, foreign matter, and loose glass from damaged areas, apply primer along windshield or window edges, and allow primer to dry. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.39 | untouched |
| Check for and remove moisture or contamination in damaged areas and keep areas dry until repairs are complete. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.30 | untouched |
| Apply a bead of urethane around the perimeter of each pinchweld and dress the remaining urethane on the pinchwelds so that it is of uniform level and thickness. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.28 | untouched |
| Install, repair, or replace safety glass and related materials, such as back glass heating elements, on vehicles or equipment. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.21 | untouched |
| Install replacement glass in vehicles. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.20 | untouched |
| Allow all glass parts installed with urethane ample time to cure, taking temperature and humidity into account. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.20 | untouched |
| Replace all moldings, clips, windshield wipers, or other parts that were removed prior to glass replacement or repair. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.08 | untouched |
| Remove broken or damaged glass windshields or window glass from motor vehicles, using hand tools to remove screws from frames holding glass. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.07 | untouched |
| Replace or adjust motorized or manual window-raising mechanisms. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.03 | untouched |
| Remove moldings, clips, windshield wipers, screws, bolts, and inside A-pillar moldings and lower headliners in preparation for installation or repair work. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.88 | untouched |
| Install new foam dams on pinchwelds, if required. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.76 | untouched |
| Install rubber channeling strips around edges of glass or frames to weatherproof windows or to prevent rattling. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.43 | untouched |
| Cut flat safety glass according to specified patterns or perform precision pattern making and glass cutting to custom fit replacement windows. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.82 | untouched |
| Hold cut or uneven edges of glass against automated abrasive belts to shape or smooth edges. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 2.81 | untouched |
| Cool or warm glass in the event of temperature extremes. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 2.59 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean. 1 task(s) lacked a usable O*NET weight and are shown but excluded from the weighting.
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.