Will AI replace Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other?

What this score means

Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other leans toward the safer end for Engineering. Parts of the role touch tasks AI is getting good at, but the core still depends on hands on work or judgment that resists automation. At 28 out of 100 it scores 8 points below the Engineering average of 36. Across the 3 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 14 to 43, 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

The research behind this score

This baseline aggregates 3 research sources that scored Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other for AI and automation exposure. More recent, higher confidence studies carry more weight in the final number.

• 01Anthropic Economic Index 2026 - AI Task Exposure · 2026Anthropic
• 02Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations · 2025Tomlinson, Jaffe et al., Microsoft Research (2025)
• 03AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023Felten, Raj, Seamans (2023)

Common questions

How likely is AI to replace Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other?

Published research puts Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other at 28 out of 100 for AI displacement risk, in the lower risk band. The number is a weighted consensus of 3 research sources and describes the typical version of the role, not any individual.

Do researchers agree on the risk for Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other?

Only partly. Individual estimates for Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other run from 14 to 43 out of 100 across the 3 sources behind this score, so the single number smooths over real disagreement. More recent and higher confidence studies carry more weight in it.

Which engineering roles face similar AI exposure?

The closest published engineering roles to Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other by score are Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians (28/100), Photonics Technicians (29/100), and Chemical Engineers (27/100). Each has its own page with the research behind its number.

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