AI exposure: Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment
Install, adjust, or maintain mobile electronics communication equipment, including sound, sonar, security, navigation, and surveillance systems on trains, watercraft, or other mobile equipment.
Reading this score
computedAt 15.3% of weighted task load, Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment sits at the 24th percentile, below the point where a job's centre of gravity has moved. 76.0% 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 15 tasks it averages 2.40 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 Maintain equipment service records, at 73.3%. The least is Measure, cut, and install frameworks and conduit to support and connect wiring, control panels,..., 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 18 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 15 tasks, 4 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 11 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 | 1.00 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 2.40 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.40 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 1.22 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.24 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.63 | 0-3 |
Task by task
15 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maintain equipment service records. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.70 | exposed |
| Refer to schematics and manufacturers' specifications that show connections and provide instructions on how to locate problems. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 3.61 | exposed |
| Estimate costs of repairs based on parts and labor requirements. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.34 | exposed |
| Confer with customers to determine the nature of malfunctions. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 3.87 | exposed |
| Inspect and test electrical systems and equipment to locate and diagnose malfunctions, using visual inspections, testing devices, and computer software. | 9.2% | 15.8% | 75.0% | 4.03 | untouched |
| Reassemble and test equipment after repairs. | 6.2% | 6.2% | 87.5% | 3.91 | untouched |
| Adjust, repair, or replace defective wiring and relays in ignition, lighting, air-conditioning, and safety control systems, using electrician's tools. | 5.4% | 7.1% | 87.5% | 3.78 | untouched |
| Splice wires with knives or cutting pliers, and solder connections to fixtures, outlets, and equipment. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.74 | untouched |
| Locate and remove or repair circuit defects such as blown fuses or malfunctioning transistors. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.72 | untouched |
| Install fixtures, outlets, terminal boards, switches, and wall boxes, using hand tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.59 | untouched |
| Install new fuses, electrical cables, or power sources as required. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.57 | untouched |
| Cut openings and drill holes for fixtures, outlet boxes, and fuse holders, using electric drills and routers. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.38 | untouched |
| Install electrical equipment such as air-conditioning, heating, or ignition systems and components such as generator brushes and commutators, using hand tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.77 | untouched |
| Repair or rebuild equipment such as starters, generators, distributors, or door controls, using electrician's tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.43 | untouched |
| Measure, cut, and install frameworks and conduit to support and connect wiring, control panels, and junction boxes, using hand tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.27 | 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.