Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers

Production Occupations
O*NET-SOC code
51-9195.04

Shape molten glass according to patterns.

AI exposure

  • Data source: BLSPublished: 2026-08

    Low· relative

    LowFour relative bandsVery high

    Group-level value

    Scale, basis and source

    Four relative bands (Low / Moderate / High / Very high)

    831 detailed occupations in the BLS Employment Projections table. Assigned per National Employment Matrix (NEM) code, so occupations sharing a NEM code carry the same band

    Source dataset (XLSX download)

  • Data source: AnthropicPublished: 2026-03

    0.000

    0.000Range of values carried here0.745

    Group-level value

    Scale, basis and source

    Observed exposure index, 0–1 as published

    Mapped onto O*NET tasks

    Published per SOC 2018 occupation; every O*NET occupation with the same SOC 2018 code carries this value

    Source dataset (CSV download)

  • Data source: ILOPublished: 2025

    0.14–0.24· 6 ISCO-08 groups

    Scale, basis and source

    Generative AI exposure index, 0–1 as published

    Published per ISCO-08 unit group. Linked to this occupation, wholly or in part, by applying U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics crosswalks (ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC, 2010 SOC to 2018 SOC) as published

    Source dataset (PDF download)

What kind of figure this source publishes

The BLS category is a relative rank, not an absolute level, and it is not a first-hand measurement: it groups an occupation's percentile ranks across several published studies into four bands. It is not an employment or wage forecast, not a probability of adoption, and it does not separate automation from augmentation.

ILO value for each linked ISCO-08 group
  • ISCO-08 7314Potters and Related Workers0.18
  • ISCO-08 7315Glass Makers, Cutters, Grinders and Finishers0.19
  • ISCO-08 7516Tobacco Preparers and Tobacco Products Makers0.14
  • ISCO-08 8131Chemical Products Plant and Machine Operators0.24
  • ISCO-08 8141Rubber Products Machine Operators0.18
  • ISCO-08 8181Glass and Ceramics Plant Operators0.17

AI exposure (OpenAI rubric)

19 rated tasks · 2 tasks with β ≥ 0.5 (10.5%)

β = direct exposure (E1) + 0.5 × exposure when tools are available (E2), per the source repository's definition.

  • Source unit: O*NET 27.2 tasks → O*NET 31.0 occupation code
  • All rated tasks are in the O*NET 31.0 task list.
Source
OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" exposure rubric
Release
gh-main-0471612
License
MIT License, Copyright (c) 2024 OpenAI

Tasks

Task statements from the O*NET® 31.0 Database, core tasks first.

TaskTypeβ (OpenAI)
Inspect, weigh, and measure products to verify conformance to specifications, using instruments such as micrometers, calipers, magnifiers, or rulers.Core0
Record manufacturing information, such as quantities, sizes, or types of goods produced.Core1
Heat glass to pliable stage, using gas flames or ovens and rotating glass to heat it uniformly.Core0
Blow tubing into specified shapes to prevent glass from collapsing, using compressed air or own breath, or blow and rotate gathers in molds or on boards to obtain final shapes.Core0
Shape, bend, or join sections of glass, using paddles, pressing and flattening hand tools, or cork.Core0
Develop sketches of glass products into blueprint specifications, applying knowledge of glass technology and glass blowing.Core0.5
Determine types and quantities of glass required to fabricate products.Core0
Place electrodes in tube ends and heat them with glass burners to fuse them into place.Core0
Cut lengths of tubing to specified sizes, using files or cutting wheels.Core0
Design and create glass objects, using blowpipes and artisans' hand tools and equipment.Core0
Operate and maintain finishing machines to grind, drill, sand, bevel, decorate, wash, or polish glass or glass products.Core0
Operate electric kilns that heat and mold glass sheets to the shape and curve of metal jigs.Core0
Set up and adjust machine press stroke lengths and pressures and regulate oven temperatures, according to glass types to be processed.Supplemental0
Place rubber hoses on ends of tubing and charge tubing with gas.Supplemental0
Superimpose bent tubing on asbestos patterns to ensure accuracy.Supplemental0
Strike necks of finished articles to separate articles from blowpipes.Supplemental0
Spray or swab molds with oil solutions to prevent adhesion of glass.Supplemental0
Place glass into dies or molds of presses and control presses to form products, such as glassware components or optical blanks.Supplemental0
Repair broken scrolls by replacing them with new sections of tubing.Supplemental0

Occupation information

Sources and attribution

This page includes information from the O*NET® 31.0 Database (https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html) by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. AI Changing Work has modified all or some of this information: the O*NET-SOC code, title and task statements are reproduced in English without change; task-type labels are shown in the page's language and tasks are listed core first; any Korean occupation title shown on the Korean-language page is AI Changing Work's translation; any KSCO-8 unit groups linked to this occupation were paired with it by AI Changing Work's judgment, and the relation labels and statuses are AI Changing Work's additions. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.

Any AI exposure figures on this page are published by third parties, not by AI Changing Work, and none is part of the O*NET information. OpenAI publishes task-level scores (MIT License) for O*NET 27.2 task statements; each is shown next to the O*NET 31.0 task statement with the same task ID, whose wording can differ from the 27.2 statement that was scored. OpenAI also publishes occupation-level scores for O*NET-SOC codes in the same release, and any such score is shown on the O*NET occupation with the same code. Anthropic publishes an observed exposure index in the Anthropic Economic Index (CC-BY), and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes relative AI exposure categories (public domain); both are published per SOC code, and each value is shown on every O*NET occupation with that code. The International Labour Organization publishes a generative AI exposure index in ILO Working Paper 140 (CC BY 4.0) for ISCO-08 unit groups; AI Changing Work links those groups to O*NET occupations by applying the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC and 2010 SOC to 2018 SOC crosswalks as published, without case-by-case selection, and these crosswalks match many groups only in part. Where several unit groups are linked, each group's published value is listed, and any summary shows only the lowest and highest of those values with the number of groups; no exposure figure is averaged or recalculated. Any employment figures are published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for the SOC group containing this occupation. Each source is credited where its figures are shown.

O*NET OnLine: 51-9195.04 Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers

KSCO 코드·명칭: 한국표준직업분류(제8차 개정) — 통계청 고시 제2024-328호 (2024-07-01 고시, 2025-01-01 시행). 저작권법 제7조 제2호의 고시 항목이다. 명칭 표기(가운뎃점·띄어쓰기)는 해설서 2차 정오 반영판의 표기를 따랐으며, 고시 항목표와는 18개 명칭에서 가운뎃점 글리프나 띄어쓰기만 다르다. 통계청은 2025년 10월 국가데이터처로 개편되었다. 이 페이지의 KSCO 연결은 통계청·국가데이터처의 공식 연계표가 아니다.

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