AI exposure: Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers
Install, repair, or adjust audio or television receivers, stereo systems, camcorders, video systems, or other electronic entertainment equipment in homes or other venues. May perform routine maintenance.
Reading this score
computedAt 22.2% of weighted task load, Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers sits at the 41th percentile, below the point where a job's centre of gravity has moved. 64.2% of what this role does is untouched, meaning current systems cannot produce that work at all, whatever the commercial incentive.
What holds the line here is embodiment. Across this occupation's 11 tasks it averages 2.00 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work has to happen in physical space. A language model cannot move matter. Until the robotics to do this work is both good enough and cheap enough to deploy widely, capability in software does not reach it.
The most exposed thing this job does is Keep records of work orders and test and maintenance reports, at 73.3%. The least is Disassemble entertainment equipment and repair or replace loose, worn, or defective components..., at 0.0%. A gap of 73.3% 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 installation, maintenance and repair occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 50 roles in the group is 12.8%, and only 9 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 11 tasks, 5 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 6 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take robotics cheap and reliable enough to deploy at scale, not a better language model. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
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 | 1.50 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 2.00 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.86 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.82 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.41 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.14 | 0-3 |
Task by task
11 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keep records of work orders and test and maintenance reports. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.69 | exposed |
| Compute cost estimates for labor and materials. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.12 | exposed |
| Confer with customers to determine the nature of problems or to explain repairs. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 4.02 | exposed |
| Read and interpret electronic circuit diagrams, function block diagrams, specifications, engineering drawings, and service manuals. | 39.6% | 22.9% | 37.5% | 3.91 | exposed |
| Instruct customers on the safe and proper use of equipment. | 30.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% | 3.97 | exposed |
| Tune or adjust equipment and instruments to obtain optimum visual or auditory reception, according to specifications, manuals, and drawings. | 15.0% | 10.0% | 75.0% | 3.84 | untouched |
| Calibrate and test equipment, and locate circuit and component faults, using hand and power tools and measuring and testing instruments such as resistance meters and oscilloscopes. | 10.8% | 14.2% | 75.0% | 4.02 | untouched |
| Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.39 | untouched |
| Position or mount speakers, and wire speakers to consoles. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.01 | untouched |
| Make service calls to repair units in customers' homes, or return units to shops for major repairs. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.96 | untouched |
| Disassemble entertainment equipment and repair or replace loose, worn, or defective components and wiring, using hand tools and soldering irons. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.59 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
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.
What this means in practice
Most of this work is not reachable by current systems, so the immediate pressure is on the administrative edges of the role rather than its core: the scheduling, the reporting, the written records. That is where time is recovered.