Will AI replace Potters, Manufacturing?
AI reaches little of this job’s work.
1/100
Low exposure
More exposed to AI than 4% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 3% of the work
What the job involves
Operate production machines such as pug mill, jigger machine, or potter's wheel to process clay in manufacture of ceramic, pottery and stoneware products.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Within reach(1)
- Design clay forms and molds, and decorations for forms.
Out of reach(22)
- Operate gas or electric kilns to fire pottery pieces.
- Move pieces from wheels so that they can dry.
- Attach handles to pottery pieces.
- Raise and shape clay into wares, such as vases and pitchers, on revolving wheels, using hands, fingers, and thumbs.
- Adjust wheel speeds according to the feel of the clay as pieces enlarge and walls become thinner.
and 17 more
Also called
Thrower · Pot Maker · Clay Mixer · Glazer · Jigger Artisan · Jigger Machine Operator · Jiggerman · Kiln Worker
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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