AI exposure: Helpers--Electricians
Help electricians by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
Reading this score
computedHelpers--Electricians is among the least exposed occupations measured, at 2.2% of weighted task load, rank 903 of 923. 95.9% of this job is work current AI systems cannot produce at all. That is not a statement about skill or value. It is a statement about what these systems can and cannot do.
What holds the line here is embodiment. Across this occupation's 25 tasks it averages 2.92 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 Requisition materials, at 50.0%. The least is Operate cutting torches and welding equipment, while working with conduit and metal components..., at 0.0%. A gap of 50.0% 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 construction and extraction occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 5.1% across the group's 61 roles, with 46 scoring higher. Being in an exposed family does not make a particular job exposed, and the reverse holds too.
What would move this score. Of 25 tasks, 1 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 24 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 | 0.18 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 2.92 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.26 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 1.03 | 0-3 |
| Context | 0.98 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.17 | 0-3 |
Task by task
25 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Requisition materials, using warehouse requisition or release forms. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.41 | exposed |
| Trace out short circuits in wiring, using test meter. | 10.0% | 15.0% | 75.0% | 4.21 | untouched |
| Examine electrical units for loose connections and broken insulation and tighten connections, using hand tools. | 4.2% | 8.3% | 87.5% | 4.15 | untouched |
| Strip insulation from wire ends, using wire stripping pliers, and attach wires to terminals for subsequent soldering. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.44 | untouched |
| Measure, cut, and bend wire and conduit, using measuring instruments and hand tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.20 | untouched |
| Maintain tools, vehicles, and equipment and keep parts and supplies in order. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.12 | untouched |
| Drill holes and pull or push wiring through openings, using hand and power tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.10 | untouched |
| Clean work area and wash parts. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.08 | untouched |
| Perform semi-skilled and unskilled laboring duties related to the installation, maintenance and repair of a wide variety of electrical systems and equipment. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.06 | untouched |
| Thread conduit ends, connect couplings, and fabricate and secure conduit support brackets, using hand tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.01 | untouched |
| Disassemble defective electrical equipment, replace defective or worn parts, and reassemble equipment, using hand tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.96 | untouched |
| Construct controllers and panels, using power drills, drill presses, taps, saws, and punches. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.91 | untouched |
| Transport tools, materials, equipment, and supplies to work site by hand, handtruck, or heavy, motorized truck. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.87 | untouched |
| String transmission lines or cables through ducts or conduits, under the ground, through equipment, or to towers. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.82 | untouched |
| Install copper-clad ground rods, using a manual post driver. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.81 | untouched |
| Dig trenches or holes for installation of conduit or supports. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.69 | untouched |
| Raise, lower, or position equipment, tools, and materials, using hoist, hand line, or block and tackle. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.43 | untouched |
| Bolt component parts together to form tower assemblies, using hand tools. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.34 | untouched |
| Erect electrical system components and barricades, and rig scaffolds, hoists, and shoring. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.06 | untouched |
| Trim trees and clear undergrowth along right-of-way. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.69 | untouched |
| Solder electrical connections, using soldering iron. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.09 | untouched |
| Paint a variety of objects related to electrical functions. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.06 | untouched |
| Break up concrete, using airhammer, to facilitate installation, construction, or repair of equipment. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 2.89 | untouched |
| Operate heavy equipment, such as backhoes. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 2.58 | untouched |
| Operate cutting torches and welding equipment, while working with conduit and metal components to construct devices associated with electrical functions. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 2.54 | 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.