Will AI replace Hearing Aid Specialists?

What this score means

Hearing Aid Specialists 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 20 out of 100 it scores 6 points below the Healthcare average of 26. Across the 3 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 5 to 38, 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 Hearing Aid Specialists, most central first.

• 01Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.
• 02Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.
• 03Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.
• 04Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.
• 05Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.
• 06Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.
• 07Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.
• 08Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in audiology.
• 09Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.
• 10Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.
• 11Diagnose and treat hearing or related disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.

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 Hearing Aid Specialists 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

Also covers

Audiology Assistant · Audiology Technician · Audioprosthologist · Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialist (Board Certified HIS) · Hearing Aid Attendant · Hearing Aid Consultant · Hearing Aid Dispenser · Hearing Aid Fitter and related titles

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