Carpenters
Construction
SOC 47-2031
~0.9M US jobs
Median $56,000
OFI
5.8
transformation pressure
Highly physical & site-variable; AI assists planning, not the manual craft. — AIOE; Eloundou et al. 2023; modeled
Task transformation under adoption
Share of tasks automated / augmented / human, projected via Bass-diffusion adoption. Scenario, not a prediction.
Exposure profile
Representative tasks
- Build & install structures
- Read blueprints
- Finish work
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We model task transformation, not job loss. OFI and its projections are scenario estimates grounded in published AI-exposure frameworks — model outputs, not predictions of employment outcomes.