AI exposure: Bailiffs
Maintain order in courts of law.
Reading this score
computedAt 15.0% of weighted task load, Bailiffs sits at the 23th percentile, below the point where a job's centre of gravity has moved. 73.3% of what this role does is untouched, meaning current systems cannot produce that work at all, whatever the commercial incentive.
What holds the line here is embodiment. Across this occupation's 15 tasks it averages 2.27 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 Provide assistance to the public, at 50.0%. The least is Provide jury escort to restaurant and other areas outside of courtroom to prevent jury contact..., at 0.0%. A gap of 50.0% 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 protective service occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 18.9% across the group's 26 roles, with 20 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 15 tasks, 3 are currently banded exposed, 1 assisted and 11 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 | 1.10 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 2.27 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 2.27 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 1.53 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.57 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.93 | 0-3 |
Task by task
15 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provide assistance to the public, such as directions to court offices. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.97 | exposed |
| Announce entrance of judge. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.94 | exposed |
| Maintain court docket. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 4.09 | exposed |
| Report need for police or medical assistance to sheriff's office. | 35.0% | 40.0% | 25.0% | 4.22 | assisted |
| Check courtroom for security and cleanliness and assure availability of sundry supplies, such as notepads, for use by judge, jurors, and attorneys. | 22.5% | 15.0% | 62.5% | 4.06 | untouched |
| Guard lodging of sequestered jury. | 11.7% | 13.3% | 75.0% | 4.40 | untouched |
| Stop people from entering courtroom while judge charges jury. | 11.7% | 13.3% | 75.0% | 4.05 | untouched |
| Enforce courtroom rules of behavior and warn persons not to smoke or disturb court procedure. | 7.5% | 17.5% | 75.0% | 4.39 | untouched |
| Screen persons entering courthouse using magnetometers, x-ray machines, and other devices to collect and retain unauthorized firearms and other contraband. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.70 | untouched |
| Escort prisoners to and from courthouse and maintain custody of prisoners during court proceedings. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.60 | untouched |
| Maintain order in courtroom during trial and guard jury from outside contact. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.46 | untouched |
| Provide security by patrolling interior and exterior of courthouse and escorting judges and other court employees. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.44 | untouched |
| Arrest persons in court when arrest warrants have been issued. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.32 | untouched |
| Screen, control, and handle evidence and exhibits during court proceedings. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.04 | untouched |
| Provide jury escort to restaurant and other areas outside of courtroom to prevent jury contact with public. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.83 | 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.