Food Cooking Machine Operators
Food Preparation & ServiceAI exposure
- Data source: BLSPublished: 2026-08
Low· relative
LowFour relative bandsVery highGroup-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
- Data source: AnthropicPublished: 2026-03
0.000
0.000Range of values carried here0.745Scale, basis and source
- Data source: ILOPublished: 2025
0.15
0.09Range of values carried here0.70Group-level value
Scale, basis and source
Generative AI exposure index, 0–1 as published
ISCO-08 unit group — every occupation sharing the code gets this value
Computed by this site, not published by the ILO: of the 1,012 occupations this site links to the ILO dataset, 92% score at or above this value.
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.
Task-level exposure
Exposed tasks onlyValues in this tab are predicted labels, not observations. Eloundou et al. (2023) published two rating regimes — human raters and GPT-4 — and the β shown here is derived from the GPT-4 rater basis alone; the same task can take a different value under the other regime. The unit and the meaning differ from the observed shares (%) in the other tabs, so do not place them on the same axis.
| Task | βE1 + 0.5 × E2 |
|---|---|
Record production and test data, such as processing steps, temperature and steam readings, cooking time, batches processed, and test results.O*NET Task ID 4944 | 1.0 |
Read work orders, recipes, or formulas to determine cooking times and temperatures, and ingredient specifications.O*NET Task ID 4948 | 1.0 |
Listen for malfunction alarms, and shut down equipment and notify supervisors when necessary.O*NET Task ID 4945 | 0.0 |
Collect and examine product samples during production to test them for quality, color, content, consistency, viscosity, acidity, or specific gravity.O*NET Task ID 4946 | 0.0 |
Observe gauges, dials, and product characteristics, and adjust controls to maintain appropriate temperature, pressure, and flow of ingredients.O*NET Task ID 4947 | 0.0 |
Clean, wash, and sterilize equipment and cooking area, using water hoses, cleaning or sterilizing solutions, or rinses.O*NET Task ID 4949 | 0.0 |
Set temperature, pressure, and time controls, and start conveyers, machines, or pumps.O*NET Task ID 4950 | 0.0 |
Tend or operate and control equipment, such as kettles, cookers, vats and tanks, and boilers, to cook ingredients or prepare products for further processing.O*NET Task ID 4951 | 0.0 |
Measure or weigh ingredients, using scales or measuring containers.O*NET Task ID 4952 | 0.0 |
Admit required amounts of water, steam, cooking oils, or compressed air into equipment, such as by opening water valves to cool mixtures to the desired consistency.O*NET Task ID 4953 | 0.0 |
Remove cooked material or products from equipment.O*NET Task ID 4954 | 0.0 |
Notify or signal other workers to operate equipment or when processing is complete.O*NET Task ID 4955 | 0.0 |
Turn valves or start pumps to add ingredients or drain products from equipment and to transfer products for storage, cooling, or further processing.O*NET Task ID 4956 | 0.0 |
Place products on conveyors or carts, and monitor product flow.O*NET Task ID 4957 | 0.0 |
Pour, dump, or load prescribed quantities of ingredients or products into cooking equipment, manually or using a hoist.O*NET Task ID 4958 | 0.0 |
Activate agitators and paddles to mix or stir ingredients, stopping machines when ingredients are thoroughly mixed.O*NET Task ID 4959 | 0.0 |
Operate auxiliary machines and equipment, such as grinders, canners, and molding presses, to prepare or further process products.O*NET Task ID 4960 | 0.0 |
β = E1 + 0.5 × E2 · E1 = tasks where direct LLM access alone cuts time by at least 50%, E2 = tasks where software built on top of an LLM cuts time by at least 50%. Values take only 0 / 0.5 / 1.0.
Data sources & licenses — O*NET®, Eloundou et al. (2023): see full notices on the Credits page