Respiratory Therapists
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
0.30
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, 67% 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 only| Task | Claude.aiRaw / share % |
|---|---|
Educate patients and their families about their conditions and teach appropriate disease management techniques, such as breathing exercises or the use of medications or respiratory equipment.29-1126 | 0.014053.0 |
Explain treatment procedures to patients to gain cooperation and allay fears.29-1126 | 0.012447.0 |
| Not observed on any surface — 20 task(s) — These tasks have no row in the source for this release. The 0 in the share row is a display-stage composition ratio; absence is what the — in the raw row states. | |
Set up and operate devices such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, or aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment. | —0 |
Provide emergency care, such as artificial respiration, external cardiac massage, or assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation. | —0 |
Determine requirements for treatment, such as type, method and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, or medication and dosages, compatible with physicians' orders. | —0 |
Monitor patient's physiological responses to therapy, such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, or blood chemistry changes, and consult with physician if adverse reactions occur. | —0 |
Read prescription, measure arterial blood gases, and review patient information to assess patient condition. | —0 |
Enforce safety rules and ensure careful adherence to physicians' orders. | —0 |
Maintain charts that contain patients' pertinent identification and therapy information. | —0 |
Inspect, clean, test, and maintain respiratory therapy equipment to ensure equipment is functioning safely and efficiently, ordering repairs when necessary. | —0 |
Relay blood analysis results to a physician. | —0 |
Perform pulmonary function and adjust equipment to obtain optimum results in therapy. | —0 |
Perform bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises. | —0 |
Demonstrate respiratory care procedures to trainees or other healthcare personnel. | —0 |
Teach, train, supervise, or use the assistance of students, respiratory therapy technicians, or assistants. | —0 |
Use a variety of testing techniques to assist doctors in cardiac or pulmonary research or to diagnose disorders. | —0 |
Make emergency visits to resolve equipment problems. | —0 |
Conduct tests, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, or lung capacity tests, to evaluate patients' cardiopulmonary functions. | —0 |
Work as part of a team of physicians, nurses, or other healthcare professionals to manage patient care by assisting with medical procedures or related duties. | —0 |
Transport patients to the hospital or within the hospital. | —0 |
Perform endotracheal intubation to maintain open airways for patients who are unable to breathe on their own. | —0 |
Monitor cardiac patients, using electrocardiography devices, such as a holter monitor. | —0 |
Values 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 |
|---|---|
Maintain charts that contain patients' pertinent identification and therapy information.O*NET Task ID 404 | 1.0 |
Relay blood analysis results to a physician.O*NET Task ID 408 | 1.0 |
Determine requirements for treatment, such as type, method and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, or medication and dosages, compatible with physicians' orders.O*NET Task ID 399 | 0.5 |
Read prescription, measure arterial blood gases, and review patient information to assess patient condition.O*NET Task ID 401 | 0.5 |
Use a variety of testing techniques to assist doctors in cardiac or pulmonary research or to diagnose disorders.O*NET Task ID 413 | 0.5 |
Conduct tests, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, or lung capacity tests, to evaluate patients' cardiopulmonary functions.O*NET Task ID 415 | 0.5 |
Monitor cardiac patients, using electrocardiography devices, such as a holter monitor.O*NET Task ID 20411 | 0.5 |
Set up and operate devices, such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, or aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.O*NET Task ID 397 | 0.0 |
Provide emergency care, such as artificial respiration, external cardiac massage, or assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.O*NET Task ID 398 | 0.0 |
Monitor patient's physiological responses to therapy, such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, or blood chemistry changes, and consult with physician if adverse reactions occur.O*NET Task ID 400 | 0.0 |
Enforce safety rules and ensure careful adherence to physicians' orders.O*NET Task ID 403 | 0.0 |
Inspect, clean, test, and maintain respiratory therapy equipment to ensure equipment is functioning safely and efficiently, ordering repairs when necessary.O*NET Task ID 405 | 0.0 |
Educate patients and their families about their conditions and teach appropriate disease management techniques, such as breathing exercises or the use of medications or respiratory equipment.O*NET Task ID 406 | 0.0 |
Explain treatment procedures to patients to gain cooperation and allay fears.O*NET Task ID 407 | 0.0 |
Perform pulmonary function and adjust equipment to obtain optimum results in therapy.O*NET Task ID 409 | 0.0 |
Perform bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises.O*NET Task ID 410 | 0.0 |
Demonstrate respiratory care procedures to trainees or other healthcare personnel.O*NET Task ID 411 | 0.0 |
Teach, train, supervise, or use the assistance of students, respiratory therapy technicians, or assistants.O*NET Task ID 412 | 0.0 |
Make emergency visits to resolve equipment problems.O*NET Task ID 414 | 0.0 |
Work as part of a team of physicians, nurses, or other healthcare professionals to manage patient care by assisting with medical procedures or related duties.O*NET Task ID 18522 | 0.0 |
Transport patients to the hospital or within the hospital.O*NET Task ID 20409 | 0.0 |
Perform endotracheal intubation to maintain open airways for patients who are unable to breathe on their own.O*NET Task ID 20410 | 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.
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