AI exposure: Models
Model garments or other apparel and accessories for prospective buyers at fashion shows, private showings, or retail establishments. May pose for photos to be used in magazines or advertisements. May pose as subject for paintings, sculptures, and other types of artistic expression.
Reading this score
computedAt 19.9% of weighted task load, Models sits at the 36th percentile, below the point where a job's centre of gravity has moved. 69.0% 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 10 tasks it averages 2.30 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 job completions to agencies and obtain information about future appointments, at 76.7%. The least is Dress in sample or completed garments, and select accessories, at 0.0%. A gap of 76.7% 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 sales occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 50.0% across the group's 22 roles, with 21 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 10 tasks, 3 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 7 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 | 1.05 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 2.30 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 2.05 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.45 | 0-3 |
| Context | 0.80 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 0.55 | 0-3 |
Task by task
10 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report job completions to agencies and obtain information about future appointments. | 76.7% | 23.3% | 0.0% | 3.95 | exposed |
| Record rates of pay and durations of jobs on vouchers. | 60.0% | 40.0% | 0.0% | 4.59 | exposed |
| Gather information from agents concerning the pay, dates, times, provisions, and lengths of jobs. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 4.12 | exposed |
| Assemble and maintain portfolios, print composite cards, and travel to go-sees to obtain jobs. | 5.8% | 6.7% | 87.5% | 3.66 | untouched |
| Pose for artists and photographers. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.39 | untouched |
| Pose as directed, or strike suitable interpretive poses for promoting and selling merchandise or fashions during appearances, filming, or photo sessions. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.61 | untouched |
| Follow strict routines of diet, sleep, and exercise to maintain appearance. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.26 | untouched |
| Apply makeup to face and style hair to enhance appearance, considering such factors as color, camera techniques, and facial features. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.10 | untouched |
| Work closely with photographers, fashion coordinators, directors, producers, stylists, make-up artists, other models, and clients to produce the desired looks, and to finish photo shoots on schedule. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.02 | untouched |
| Dress in sample or completed garments, and select accessories. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 2.45 | 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.