Will AI replace Stockers and Order Fillers?

What this score means

Stockers and Order Fillers leans toward the safer end for Transportation. 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 29 out of 100 it scores 9 points above the Transportation average of 20. Across the 8 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 14 to 59, 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 Stockers and Order Fillers, most central first, showing 12 of 30.

• 01Complete order receipts.
• 02Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.
• 03Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.
• 04Keep records of out-going orders.
• 05Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
• 06Operate equipment such as forklifts.
• 07Stamp, attach, or change price tags on merchandise, referring to price list.
• 08Obtain merchandise from bins or shelves.
• 09Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.
• 10Read orders to ascertain catalog numbers, sizes, colors, and quantities of merchandise.
• 11Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.
• 12Pack customer purchases in bags or cartons.

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 8 research sources that scored Stockers and Order Fillers 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
• 02Global Automation Atlas: Task Substitution Exposure by Occupation · 2026Garg, Crosta, Baier (2026), arXiv:2605.17086
• 03The AI Jobs Transition Framework: Mapping AI's Near-Term Impact on Jobs · 2026OpenAI Economic Research (2026)
• 04Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure · 2025International Labour Organization, Working Paper 140 (2025)
• 05Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations · 2025Tomlinson, Jaffe et al., Microsoft Research (2025)
• 06A new future of work: The race to deploy AI and raise skills in Europe and beyond · 2024McKinsey Global Institute (2024)
• 07GPTs are GPTs: Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs · 2024Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin, Rock (Science, 2024)
• 08AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023Felten, Raj, Seamans (2023)

Common questions

How likely is AI to replace Stockers and Order Fillers?

Published research puts Stockers and Order Fillers at 29 out of 100 for AI displacement risk, in the lower risk band. The number is a weighted consensus of 8 research sources and describes the typical version of the role, not any individual.

Do researchers agree on the risk for Stockers and Order Fillers?

Only partly. Individual estimates for Stockers and Order Fillers run from 14 to 59 out of 100 across the 8 sources behind this score, so the single number smooths over real disagreement. More recent and higher confidence studies carry more weight in it.

Which transportation roles face similar AI exposure?

The closest published transportation roles to Stockers and Order Fillers by score are First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators (29/100), Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters (29/100), and Traffic Technicians (30/100). Each has its own page with the research behind its number.

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• Passenger Attendants33/100
• Flight Attendants31/100
• Transportation Inspectors31/100
• Traffic Technicians30/100
• First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators29/100
• Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters29/100
• Transportation Vehicle, Equipment and Systems Inspectors, Except Aviation26/100
• Air Traffic Controllers25/100