AI exposure: Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors
Supervise and coordinate the activities of ground crew in the loading, unloading, securing, and staging of aircraft cargo or baggage. May determine the quantity and orientation of cargo and compute aircraft center of gravity. May accompany aircraft as member of flight crew and monitor and handle cargo in flight, and assist and brief passengers on safety and emergency procedures. Includes loadmasters.
Reading this score
computed40.4% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors at the 71th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 2.3 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.
No single friction dominates this occupation. The strongest is embodiment at 1.17 out of 3 and the weakest is accountability at 0.67, which is a narrow spread. Where nothing structural stands in the way, exposure tracks capability almost directly, and capability is the thing that changes every quarter.
The most exposed thing this job does is Determine the quantity and orientation of cargo, and compute an aircraft's center of gravity, at 80.0%. The least is Distribute cargo to maximize use of space, at 0.0%. A gap of 80.0% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.
Within transportation and material moving occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 52 roles in the group is 24.2%, and only 5 of them score higher than this. Occupational families are not uniform, and the spread inside them is often wider than the gap between them.
What would move this score. Of 6 tasks, 5 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 1 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take capability alone, since there is little structural friction here to slow adoption once a system can do the work. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
Task by task
6 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Determine the quantity and orientation of cargo, and compute an aircraft's center of gravity. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 4.63 | exposed |
| Calculate load weights for different aircraft compartments, using charts and computers. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 4.82 | exposed |
| Direct ground crews in the loading, unloading, securing, or staging of aircraft cargo or baggage. | 30.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% | 4.54 | exposed |
| Accompany aircraft as a member of the flight crew to monitor and handle cargo in flight. | 30.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% | 4.14 | exposed |
| Train new employees in areas such as safety procedures or equipment operation. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 4.51 | exposed |
| Distribute cargo to maximize use of space. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.35 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
Where the score comes from
judgedEvery task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.
| Dimension | Mean | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 2.33 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 1.17 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.83 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.67 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.17 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 0.83 | 0-3 |
What this means in practice
Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.
Occupations either side of this one
The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.
Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.