Will AI replace Anesthesiologist Assistants?

What this score means

Anesthesiologist Assistants is among the least exposed roles in Healthcare. Most of what the job involves still sits outside what current AI can do, even as the tools around it keep changing. At 19 out of 100 it scores 7 points below the Healthcare average of 26. Across the 3 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 10 to 30, so the score is a weighted consensus rather than any single figure.

The number is a consensus estimate for the typical version of the role, built from published academic and industry research scored occupation by occupation. It is not a prediction about any individual. How scoring works

What this job actually involves

Exposure follows the work itself rather than the job title, so it is worth seeing what the role is made of. These are the tasks O*NET records for Anesthesiologist Assistants, most central first, showing 12 of 16.

• 01Provide airway management interventions including tracheal intubation, fiber optics, or ventilary support.
• 02Respond to emergency situations by providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), or pediatric advanced life support (PALS).
• 03Verify availability of operating room supplies, medications, and gases.
• 04Pretest and calibrate anesthesia delivery systems and monitors.
• 05Participate in seminars, workshops, or other professional activities to keep abreast of developments in anesthesiology.
• 06Control anesthesia levels during procedures.
• 07Assist anesthesiologists in monitoring of patients, including electrocardiogram (EKG), direct arterial pressure, central venous pressure, arterial blood gas, hematocrit, or routine measurement of temperature, respiration, blood pressure or heart rate.
• 08Administer blood, blood products, or supportive fluids.
• 09Collect and document patients' pre-anesthetic health histories.
• 10Assist in the provision of advanced life support techniques including those procedures using high frequency ventilation or intra-arterial cardiovascular assistance devices.
• 11Monitor and document patients' progress during post-anesthesia period.
• 12Administer anesthetic, adjuvant, or accessory drugs under the direction of an anesthesiologist.

Task statements from O*NET by the National Center for O*NET Development, used under CC BY 4.0. The tasks are descriptive; the exposure score above is ours.

The research behind this score

This baseline aggregates 3 research sources that scored Anesthesiologist Assistants for AI and automation exposure. More recent, higher confidence studies carry more weight in the final number.

• 01Anthropic Economic Index 2026 - AI Task Exposure · 2026
• 02GPTs are GPTs: Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs · 2024
• 03AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023

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