Will AI replace Ophthalmic Medical Technologists?

What this score means

Ophthalmic Medical Technologists 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 18 out of 100 it scores 8 points below the Healthcare average of 26. Across the 4 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 7 to 23, 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 Ophthalmic Medical Technologists, most central first, showing 12 of 31.

• 01Conduct tonometry or tonography tests to measure intraocular pressure.
• 02Take and document patients' medical histories.
• 03Take anatomical or functional ocular measurements, such as axial length measurements, of the eye or surrounding tissue.
• 04Measure visual acuity, including near, distance, pinhole, or dynamic visual acuity, using appropriate tests.
• 05Administer topical ophthalmic or oral medications.
• 06Measure and record lens power, using lensometers.
• 07Calculate corrections for refractive errors.
• 08Collect ophthalmic measurements or other diagnostic information, using ultrasound equipment, such as A-scan ultrasound biometry or B-scan ultrasonography equipment.
• 09Perform ophthalmic triage, in the office or by phone, to assess severity of patients' conditions.
• 10Clean or sterilize ophthalmic or surgical instruments.
• 11Educate patients on ophthalmic medical procedures, conditions of the eye, and appropriate use of medications.
• 12Conduct ocular motility tests to measure function of eye muscles.

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 4 research sources that scored Ophthalmic Medical Technologists 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
• 02Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure · 2025
• 03GPTs are GPTs: Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs · 2024
• 04AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023

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