All occupations › ProductionCan AI Replace Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in 2026? Lower exposure. AI could handle about 8% of today's cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders tasks by 2036, and there is a 14% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI mostly assists people in this role.
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Timeline Year 2030 Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
10% 2030 · 14% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 3% 2027: 3% 2028: 4% 2029: 4% 2030: 5% 2031: 5% 2032: 6% 2033: 7% 2034: 7% 2035: 8% 2036: 8% 5% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 100 2027: 99 2028: 99 2029: 98 2030: 98 2031: 97 2032: 97 2033: 96 2034: 96 2035: 95 2036: 95 98 Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line) Your survival map Not every part of your job is at the same risk. Tap a number to see what to do about each task.
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1 Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut or slice materials, such as glass, stone, cork, rubber, tobacco, food, paper, or insulating material. 2 Examine, measure, and weigh materials or products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring devices, such as rulers, micrometers, or scales. 3 Press buttons, pull levers, or depress pedals to start and operate cutting and slicing machines. 4 Review work orders, blueprints, specifications, or job samples to determine components, settings, and adjustments for cutting and slicing machines. 5 Maintain production records, such as quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced. Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Maintain production records, such as quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Review work orders, blueprints, specifications, or job samples to determine components, settings, and adjustments for cutting and slicing machines". Get visibly better at your human core: "Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut or slice materials, such as glass, stone, cork, rubber, tobacco, food, paper, or insulating material". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Similar occupations Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood · Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing · Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Based on 28 O*NET tasks for "Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders" (SOC 51-9032.00). LLM alone: 5% of tasks; with AI tools: 9%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
