Will AI replace First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers?
AI reaches some of this job’s work, but most of it stays with people.
27/100
Moderate exposure
More exposed to AI than 43% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 8% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 33% of the work
What the job involves
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of correctional officers and jailers.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Already happening(2)
- Maintain knowledge of, comply with, and enforce all institutional policies, rules, procedures, and regulations.
- Complete administrative paperwork or supervise the preparation or maintenance of records, forms, or reports.
Within reach(7)
- Take, receive, or check periodic inmate counts.
- Review offender information to identify issues that require special attention.
- Convey correctional officers' or inmates' complaints to superiors.
- Conduct roll calls of correctional officers.
- Set up employee work schedules.
and 2 more
Out of reach(14)
- Maintain order, discipline, and security within assigned areas in accordance with relevant rules, regulations, policies, and laws.
- Supervise and direct the work of correctional officers to ensure the safe custody, discipline, and welfare of inmates.
- Respond to emergencies, such as escapes.
- Supervise or perform searches of inmates or their quarters to locate contraband items.
- Monitor behavior of subordinates to ensure alert, courteous, and professional behavior toward inmates, parolees, fellow employees, visitors, and the public.
and 9 more
Also called
Correctional Supervisor · Correction Officer Supervisor · Guard Chief · Guard Supervisor · Ward Supervisor · Correctional Officer Captain · Commissary Manager · Correction Warden
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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