Will AI replace Cooks, Private Household?
AI reaches some of this job’s work, but most of it stays with people.
28/100
Moderate exposure
More exposed to AI than 44% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 41% of the work
What the job involves
Prepare meals in private homes. Includes personal chefs.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Within reach(5)
- Plan menus according to employers' needs and diet restrictions.
- Shop for or order food and kitchen supplies and equipment.
- Keep records pertaining to menus, finances, and other business-related issues.
- Create and explore new cuisines.
- Plan and prepare food for parties, holiday meals, luncheons, special functions, and other social events.
Out of reach(8)
- Peel, wash, trim, and cook vegetables and meats, and bake breads and pastries.
- Cool, package, label, and freeze foods for later consumption and provide instructions for reheating.
- Stock, organize, and clean kitchens and cooking utensils.
- Prepare meals in private homes according to employers' recipes or tastes, handling all meals for the family and possibly for other household staff.
- Specialize in preparing fancy dishes or food for special diets.
and 3 more
Also called
Personal Chef · Private Chef · Certified Personal Chef (CPC) · CPC · Cook · Personal Private Chef · Cooking Chef · Culinary Artist
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics