Ophthalmic Medical Technicians
HealthcareAI 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
0.35
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, 61% 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
Show 8 hidden tasksValues 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.
| Task | βE1 + 0.5 × E2 |
|---|---|
Take and document patients' medical histories.O*NET Task ID 19252 | 1.0 |
Assess refractive conditions of eyes, using retinoscopes.O*NET Task ID 19240 | 0.5 |
Call patients to inquire about their post-operative status or recovery.O*NET Task ID 19242 | 0.5 |
Conduct ocular motility tests to measure function of eye muscles.O*NET Task ID 19244 | 0.5 |
Conduct visual field tests to measure field of vision.O*NET Task ID 19245 | 0.5 |
Measure and record lens power, using lensometers.O*NET Task ID 19248 | 0.5 |
Measure visual acuity, including near, distance, pinhole, or dynamic visual acuity, using appropriate tests.O*NET Task ID 19249 | 0.5 |
Operate ophthalmic equipment, such as autorefractors, phoropters, tomographs, or retinoscopes.O*NET Task ID 19250 | 0.5 |
Take anatomical or functional ocular measurements of the eye or surrounding tissue, such as axial length measurements.O*NET Task ID 19251 | 0.5 |
Assist patients to select eyewear.O*NET Task ID 19254 | 0.5 |
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