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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Food Taster” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Food Taster” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 56% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

54%

“Food Taster” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 54% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Inspect, test, sort, sample, or weigh nonagricultural raw materials or processed, machined, fabricated, or assembled parts or products for defects, wear, and deviations from specifications. May use precision measuring instruments and complex test equipment.

Avg. Annual Salary $51,670
Avg. Hourly Wage $24.84
Available Jobs (US) 591,180
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers #51-9061
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Adjust, clean, or repair products or processing equipment to correct defects found during inspections.

  • Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances.

  • Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards.

  • Stack or arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging.

  • Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.

  • Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required.

  • Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications.

  • Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces.

  • Monitor production operations or equipment to ensure conformance to specifications, making necessary process or assembly adjustments.

  • Clean, maintain, calibrate, or repair measuring instruments or test equipment, such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, or height gauges.

  • Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded.

  • Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models.

  • Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators.

  • Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.

  • Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications.

  • Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards.

  • Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes.

  • Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights or ingredient quantities.

  • Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results.

  • Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • Monitor machines that automatically measure, sort, or inspect products.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • Mark items with details, such as grade or acceptance-rejection status.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Disassemble defective parts or components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges or measuring instruments.

  • Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary.

  • Administer tests to assess whether engineers or operators are qualified to use equipment.

  • Interpret legal requirements, provide safety information, or recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, or property owners.

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  • Computer-aided inspection software
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  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
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  • Data analysis software
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  • Accelerometers
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Force transducers
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Digital multimeters
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Strain gauges
  • Frequency meters
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Environmental chambers
  • In-circuit testers
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Depth gauges
  • Optical comparators
  • Resistivity meters
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Multimeters
  • Plotters
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Beta gauges
  • Forklifts
  • Hipot testers
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Pin gauges
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Ammeters
  • Conductivity meters
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Tensile testers
  • Gloss meters
  • Power meters
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Overhead cranes
  • Resistance meters
  • Sorting machines
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Personal computers
  • Calipers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Frequency counters
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Fatigue testers
  • Optical gauges
  • Shear testers
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Viscometers
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Ductility testers
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Micrometers
  • Compression testers
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Signal generators
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Backplane testers
  • Pulse generators
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Moisture meters
  • Continuity testers
  • Plug gauges
  • Color spectrometers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Thread gauges
  • Hardness testers
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Pi tapes
  • Shock testers
  • Eddy current probes
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Impact hammers
  • Height gauges
  • Function generators
  • Logic test systems

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