All occupations › ProductionCan AI Replace Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers in 2026? Lower exposure. AI could handle about 9% of today's welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers 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 Year 2030 Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
10% 2030 · 13% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 4% 2027: 5% 2028: 5% 2029: 5% 2030: 6% 2031: 7% 2032: 7% 2033: 8% 2034: 8% 2035: 9% 2036: 9% 6% 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 Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits. 2 Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications. 3 Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions. 4 Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and operations. 5 Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information. 6 Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques. Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and operations". Get visibly better at your human core: "Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Similar occupations Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters · Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Based on 30 O*NET tasks for "Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers" (SOC 51-4121.00). LLM alone: 8% of tasks; with AI tools: 10%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
