Will AI replace Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers?

What this score means

Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers is among the least exposed roles in Personal Services. Most of what the job involves still sits outside what current AI can do, even as the tools around it keep changing. At 21 out of 100 it scores 4 points below the Personal Services average of 25. Across the 4 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 19 to 26, 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 Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers, most central first, showing 12 of 23.

• 01Greet patrons attending entertainment events.
• 02Sell or collect admission tickets, passes, or facility memberships from patrons at entertainment events.
• 03Clean facilities.
• 04Settle seating disputes or help solve other customer concerns.
• 05Examine tickets or passes to verify authenticity, using criteria such as color or date issued.
• 06Provide assistance with patrons' special needs, such as helping those with wheelchairs.
• 07Guide patrons to exits or provide other instructions or assistance in case of emergency.
• 08Refuse admittance to undesirable persons or persons without tickets or passes.
• 09Assist patrons by giving directions to points in or outside of the facility or providing information about local attractions.
• 10Assist patrons in finding seats, lighting the way with flashlights, if necessary.
• 11Maintain order and ensure adherence to safety rules.
• 12Search for lost articles or for parents of lost children.

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 Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers 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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