AI exposure: Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
Weigh, measure, and check materials, supplies, and equipment for the purpose of keeping relevant records. Duties are primarily clerical by nature. Includes workers who collect and keep record of samples of products or materials.
Reading this score
computedAt 27.9% of weighted task load, Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping sits at the 50th percentile, below the point where a job's centre of gravity has moved. 62.4% 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 18 tasks it averages 2.22 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 Weigh or measure materials, equipment, or products to maintain relevant records, at 80.0%. The least is Unload or unpack incoming shipments, at 0.0%. A gap of 80.0% 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 office and administrative support occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 55.9% across the group's 51 roles, with 48 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, 5 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 13 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 | 1.39 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 2.22 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.25 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.39 | 0-3 |
| Context | 0.81 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 0.58 | 0-3 |
Task by task
18 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weigh or measure materials, equipment, or products to maintain relevant records, using volume meters, scales, rules, or calipers. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 4.41 | exposed |
| Remove from stock products or loads not meeting quality standards, and notify supervisors or appropriate departments of discrepancies or shortages. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 4.35 | exposed |
| Communicate with customers and vendors to exchange information regarding products, materials, and services. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 3.97 | exposed |
| Document quantity, quality, type, weight, test result data, and value of materials or products to maintain shipping, receiving, and production records and files. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 4.43 | exposed |
| Operate scalehouse computers to obtain weight information about incoming shipments such as those from waste haulers. | 33.3% | 16.7% | 50.0% | 3.79 | exposed |
| Fill orders for products and samples, following order tickets, and forward or mail items. | 30.0% | 7.5% | 62.5% | 3.93 | untouched |
| Count or estimate quantities of materials, parts, or products received or shipped. | 20.0% | 5.0% | 75.0% | 3.97 | untouched |
| Examine products or materials, parts, subassemblies, and packaging for damage, defects, or shortages, using specification sheets, gauges, and standards charts. | 16.7% | 8.3% | 75.0% | 4.27 | untouched |
| Inspect products and examination records to determine the number of defects per worker and the reasons for examiners' rejections. | 16.7% | 8.3% | 75.0% | 4.33 | untouched |
| Compare product labels, tags, or tickets, shipping manifests, purchase orders, and bills of lading to verify accuracy of shipment contents, quality specifications, or weights. | 15.0% | 10.0% | 75.0% | 4.45 | untouched |
| Signal or instruct other workers to weigh, move, or check products. | 12.5% | 12.5% | 75.0% | 4.05 | untouched |
| Collect product samples and prepare them for laboratory analysis or testing. | 6.7% | 5.8% | 87.5% | 3.76 | untouched |
| Collect or prepare measurement, weight, or identification labels and attach them to products. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.35 | untouched |
| Maintain, monitor, and clean work areas, such as recycling collection sites, drop boxes, counters and windows, and areas around scale houses. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.53 | untouched |
| Store samples of finished products in labeled cartons and record their location. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.26 | untouched |
| Sort products or materials into predetermined sequences or groupings for display, packing, shipping, or storage. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.71 | untouched |
| Transport materials, products, or samples to processing, shipping, or storage areas, manually or using conveyors, pumps, or hand trucks. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.67 | untouched |
| Unload or unpack incoming shipments. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.26 | 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.