Can AI Replace Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders in 2026?

Lower exposure. AI could handle about 6% of today's food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders tasks by 2036, and there is a 13% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI mostly assists people in this role.

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Timeline

Year2030

Tasks AI can do

Headcount (2025 = 100)

Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs

10% 2030 · 13% 2036

One person could cover, 2036

~1 roles

Share of today's tasks AI can perform

Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line)

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Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Record production data, such as weight and amount of product processed, type of product, and time and temperature of processing".Get visibly better at your human core: "Observe, feel, taste, or otherwise examine products during and after processing to ensure conformance to standards".Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output.

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Based on 20 O*NET tasks for "Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders" (SOC 51-3091.00). LLM alone: 7% of tasks; with AI tools: 7%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10