Surgical Technologists
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 % |
|---|---|
Prepare dressings or bandages and apply or assist with their application following surgery.29-2055 | 0.0020100.0 |
| Not observed on any surface — 15 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. | |
Count sponges, needles, and instruments before and after operation. | —0 |
Hand instruments and supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, hold retractors and cut sutures, and perform other tasks as directed by surgeon during operation. | —0 |
Scrub arms and hands and assist the surgical team to scrub and put on gloves, masks, and surgical clothing. | —0 |
Provide technical assistance to surgeons, surgical nurses, or anesthesiologists. | —0 |
Wash and sterilize equipment, using germicides and sterilizers. | —0 |
Prepare, care for, and dispose of tissue specimens taken for laboratory analysis. | —0 |
Operate, assemble, adjust, or monitor sterilizers, lights, suction machines, or diagnostic equipment to ensure proper operation. | —0 |
Monitor and continually assess operating room conditions, including patient and surgical team needs. | —0 |
Observe patients' vital signs to assess physical condition. | —0 |
Maintain a proper sterile field during surgical procedures. | —0 |
Prepare patients for surgery, including positioning patients on the operating table and covering them with sterile surgical drapes to prevent exposure. | —0 |
Clean and restock operating room, gathering and placing equipment and supplies and arranging instruments according to instructions, such as a preference card. | —0 |
Order surgical supplies. | —0 |
Maintain supply of fluids, such as plasma, saline, blood, or glucose, for use during operations. | —0 |
Maintain files and records of surgical procedures. | —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 files and records of surgical procedures.O*NET Task ID 1972 | 1.0 |
Order surgical supplies.O*NET Task ID 15245 | 0.5 |
Count sponges, needles, and instruments before and after operation.O*NET Task ID 1959 | 0.0 |
Hand instruments and supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, hold retractors and cut sutures, and perform other tasks as directed by surgeon during operation.O*NET Task ID 1960 | 0.0 |
Scrub arms and hands and assist the surgical team to scrub and put on gloves, masks, and surgical clothing.O*NET Task ID 1961 | 0.0 |
Provide technical assistance to surgeons, surgical nurses, or anesthesiologists.O*NET Task ID 1963 | 0.0 |
Wash and sterilize equipment, using germicides and sterilizers.O*NET Task ID 1964 | 0.0 |
Prepare, care for, and dispose of tissue specimens taken for laboratory analysis.O*NET Task ID 1965 | 0.0 |
Prepare dressings or bandages and apply or assist with their application following surgery.O*NET Task ID 1967 | 0.0 |
Operate, assemble, adjust, or monitor sterilizers, lights, suction machines, or diagnostic equipment to ensure proper operation.O*NET Task ID 1968 | 0.0 |
Monitor and continually assess operating room conditions, including patient and surgical team needs.O*NET Task ID 1969 | 0.0 |
Observe patients' vital signs to assess physical condition.O*NET Task ID 1970 | 0.0 |
Maintain supply of fluids, such as plasma, saline, blood, or glucose, for use during operations.O*NET Task ID 1971 | 0.0 |
Maintain a proper sterile field during surgical procedures.O*NET Task ID 15242 | 0.0 |
Prepare patients for surgery, including positioning patients on the operating table and covering them with sterile surgical drapes to prevent exposure.O*NET Task ID 15243 | 0.0 |
Clean and restock operating room, gathering and placing equipment and supplies and arranging instruments according to instructions, such as a preference card.O*NET Task ID 15244 | 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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