Opticians
HealthcareAI exposure
- Data source: BLSPublished: 2026-08
Moderate· 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
0.24
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, 79% 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.
| Task | βE1 + 0.5 × E2 |
|---|---|
Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.O*NET Task ID 4205 | 1.0 |
Perform administrative duties, such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.O*NET Task ID 4206 | 1.0 |
Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.O*NET Task ID 4201 | 0.5 |
Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.O*NET Task ID 4202 | 0.5 |
Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.O*NET Task ID 4204 | 0.5 |
Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.O*NET Task ID 4207 | 0.5 |
Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.O*NET Task ID 4212 | 0.5 |
Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.O*NET Task ID 4215 | 0.5 |
Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.O*NET Task ID 4216 | 0.5 |
Order and purchase frames and lenses.O*NET Task ID 18551 | 0.5 |
Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.O*NET Task ID 4203 | 0.0 |
Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and goods related to eyes, in general.O*NET Task ID 4208 | 0.0 |
Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.O*NET Task ID 4209 | 0.0 |
Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.O*NET Task ID 4210 | 0.0 |
Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.O*NET Task ID 4211 | 0.0 |
Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.O*NET Task ID 4213 | 0.0 |
Repair damaged frames.O*NET Task ID 4214 | 0.0 |
Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.O*NET Task ID 4217 | 0.0 |
Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.O*NET Task ID 4218 | 0.0 |
Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.O*NET Task ID 4219 | 0.0 |
Supervise the training of student opticians.O*NET Task ID 4220 | 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