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Will AI replace Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining?

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Baseline AI displacement risk for Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining, aggregated from 3 research sources.

What this score means

Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining is among the least exposed roles in Construction & Trades. Most of what the job involves still sits outside what current AI can do, even as the tools around it keep changing. At 12 out of 100 it sits close to the Construction & Trades average of 14. Across the 3 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 5 to 20, 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 Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining, most central first, showing 12 of 25.

01Handle high voltage sources and hang electrical cables.
02Drive loaded shuttle cars to ramps and move controls to discharge loads into mine cars or onto conveyors.
03Pry off loose material from roofs and move it into the paths of machines, using crowbars.
04Move trailing electrical cables clear of obstructions, using rubber safety gloves.
05Control conveyors that run the entire length of shuttle cars to distribute loads as loading progresses.
06Observe hand signals, grade stakes, or other markings when operating machines.
07Examine roadway and clear obstructions from the path of travel.
08Drive machines into piles of material blasted from working faces.
09Operate levers to move conveyor booms or shovels so that mine contents such as coal, rock, and ore can be placed into cars or onto conveyors.
10Clean, fuel, service, and perform safety checks on all equipment, and repair and replace parts as necessary.
11Clean hoppers, and clean spillage from tracks, walks, driveways, and conveyor decking.
12Oil, lubricate, and adjust conveyors, crushers, and other equipment, using hand tools and lubricating equipment.

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 Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining 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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