How exposed to AI is the job of Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons?

0.0% of the weighted task load of Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons is exposed, meaning work current AI systems can produce with little structural friction. A further 0.0% is assisted work and 100.0% is untouched. That places it 0th out of 923 occupations, rank 920, in release v2026.Q3 of the Task Exposure Index.

Occupation · SOC 47-3014.00 · Job Zone 2

AI exposure: Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons

Q: Will AI replace Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons?

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 Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons are most exposed to AI?

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

Help painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or stucco masons by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Reading this score

computed

Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons is among the least exposed occupations measured, at 0.0% of weighted task load, rank 920 of 923. 100.0% 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 11 tasks it averages 3.00 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 Clean work areas and equipment, at 0.0%. The least is Remove articles such as cabinets, metal furniture, and paint containers from stripping tanks..., at 0.0%. A gap of 0.0% 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 construction and extraction occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 5.1% across the group's 61 roles, with 58 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, 0 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

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	0.00	0-4
Embodiment	3.00	0-3
Presence	0.36	0-3
Accountability	0.23	0-3
Context	0.73	0-3
Verification cost	0.68	0-3

Task by task

11 tasks, O*NET 31.0

Task	Exposed	Assisted	Untouched	Importance	Band
Clean work areas and equipment.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	4.28	untouched
Supply or hold tools and materials.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	4.15	untouched
Apply protective coverings, such as masking tape, to articles or areas that could be damaged or stained by work processes.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.86	untouched
Smooth surfaces of articles to be painted, using sanding and buffing tools and equipment.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.77	untouched
Erect scaffolding.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.43	untouched
Perform support duties to assist painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or masons.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.20	untouched
Fill cracks or breaks in surfaces of plaster articles or areas with putty or epoxy compounds.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	3.18	untouched
Mix plaster, and carry plaster to plasterers.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	2.63	untouched
Pour specified amounts of chemical solutions into stripping tanks.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	2.31	untouched
Place articles to be stripped into stripping tanks.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	2.30	untouched
Remove articles such as cabinets, metal furniture, and paint containers from stripping tanks after prescribed periods of time.	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	2.25	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.