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Dental Laboratory Technicians
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 5.9% fewer of these jobs by 2035.
- Rank
- #653 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- -5.9% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $49,610 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 34,400 in the US, with about 3,600 openings a year
The work, 17 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
Still yours: Fabricate medical devices17%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing11%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Maintain medical equipment or instruments11%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Prepare industrial materials for processing or use8%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Read documents or materials to inform work processes8%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 51 conversations, and it got them there 88% of the time. In this job the work is hands-on, so AI can only assist.
Still yours: Inspect completed work or finished products6%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Take physical measurements of patients or clients5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Cut materials4%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Smooth surfaces of objects or equipment4%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Remove workpieces from production equipment4%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Prepare mixtures or solutions4%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 714 conversations, and it got them there 93% of the time.
AI does this: Train others to use equipment or products4%
AI performed this in about 1 in 494 Copilot conversations and completed it 94% of the time.
Still yours: Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures4%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Shape materials to create products3%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Join parts using soldering, welding, or brazing techniques3%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Prepare medical equipment or work areas for use2%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Apply materials to fill gaps or imperfections2%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 94 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
Even shrinking, it should still see about 3,600 openings a year as people retire or move on.
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
The jobs closest to this one. None of them is much less exposed.
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The wire
On the wire.
Nothing filed about this job yet. The latest from the Work front:
How to read this file.
deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.04, higher than 8% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 51-9081 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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