All occupations › Architecture & engineeringCan AI Replace Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers in 2026? Moderate exposure. AI could handle about 70% of today's mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers tasks by 2036, and there is a 31% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI both assists and takes over tasks.
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Timeline Year 2030 Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
13% 2030 · 31% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 18% 2027: 20% 2028: 24% 2029: 29% 2030: 36% 2031: 44% 2032: 52% 2033: 59% 2034: 64% 2035: 68% 2036: 70% 36% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 100 2027: 99 2028: 98 2029: 97 2030: 95 2031: 93 2032: 91 2033: 89 2034: 88 2035: 87 2036: 86 95 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 Supervise, train, and evaluate technicians, technologists, survey personnel, engineers, scientists or other mine personnel. 2 Lay out, direct, and supervise mine construction operations, such as the construction of shafts and tunnels. 3 Conduct or direct mining experiments to test or prove research findings. 4 Monitor mine production rates to assess operational effectiveness. 5 Select or develop mineral location, extraction, and production methods, based on factors such as safety, cost, and deposit characteristics. 6 Prepare schedules, reports, and estimates of the costs involved in developing and operating mines. 7 Prepare technical reports for use by mining, engineering, and management personnel. 8 Design, develop, and implement computer applications for use in mining operations such as mine design, modeling, or mapping or for monitoring mine conditions. Lower-risk jobs that use similar skills Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Prepare technical reports for use by mining, engineering, and management personnel". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Monitor mine production rates to assess operational effectiveness". Get visibly better at your human core: "Supervise, train, and evaluate technicians, technologists, survey personnel, engineers, scientists or other mine personnel". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Helpers--Extraction Workers. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 18 O*NET tasks for "Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers" (SOC 17-2151.00). LLM alone: 11% of tasks; with AI tools: 85%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
