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Will AI replace Team Assemblers?
Baseline AI displacement risk for Team Assemblers, aggregated from 9 research sources.
What this score means
Team Assemblers is among the least exposed roles in Manufacturing. Most of what the job involves still sits outside what current AI can do, even as the tools around it keep changing. At 23 out of 100 it scores 4 points above the Manufacturing average of 19. Across the 9 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 5 to 48, 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 Team Assemblers, most central first.
- 01Perform quality checks on products and parts.
- 02Review work orders and blueprints to ensure work is performed according to specifications.
- 03Rotate through all the tasks required in a particular production process.
- 04Determine work assignments and procedures.
- 05Supervise assemblers and train employees on job procedures.
- 06Shovel, sweep, or otherwise clean work areas.
- 07Provide assistance in the production of wiring assemblies.
- 08Maintain production equipment and machinery.
- 09Complete production reports to communicate team production level to management.
- 10Package finished products and prepare them for shipment.
- 11Operate machinery and heavy equipment, such as forklifts.
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 9 research sources that scored Team Assemblers for AI and automation exposure. More recent, higher confidence studies carry more weight in the final number.
- 01Crashing Waves vs. Rising Tides: Preliminary Findings on AI Automation from Thousands of Worker Evaluations of Labor Market Tasks · 2026Mertens, Thompson et al., MIT FutureTech (2026)
- 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)
- 04The Fearless Future: 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer — UAE Analysis · 2026PwC, Global AI Jobs Barometer (2026)
- 05Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure · 2025International Labour Organization, Working Paper 140 (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)
- 09Generative AI and the Future of Work in America · 2023McKinsey Global Institute (2023)
Common questions
- How likely is AI to replace Team Assemblers?
- Published research puts Team Assemblers at 23 out of 100 for AI displacement risk, in the lower risk band. The number is a weighted consensus of 9 research sources and describes the typical version of the role, not any individual.
- Do researchers agree on the risk for Team Assemblers?
- Only partly. Individual estimates for Team Assemblers run from 5 to 48 out of 100 across the 9 sources behind this score, so the single number smooths over real disagreement. More recent and higher confidence studies carry more weight in it.
- Which manufacturing roles face similar AI exposure?
- The closest published manufacturing roles to Team Assemblers by score are Food Batchmakers (23/100), Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic (23/100), and Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic (23/100). Each has its own page with the research behind its number.
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Assembler · Assembly Associate · Assembly Inspector · Assembly Line Machine Operator · Assembly Line Worker · Assembly Operator · Assembly Technician · Assembly Worker and related titles
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- Food Batchmakers23/100
- Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic23/100
- Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic23/100
- Printing Press Operators23/100
Informational guidance based on published research, not professional career or financial advice. Scores update as new research is ingested.