Will AI replace Potters, Manufacturing?

Task exposure to today's AI

Low exposure

This is the occupation's typical task mix. Your own score can be up to 30 points higher or lower depending on how you work: routine share, people contact, judgment and how much you already use AI.

Will AI replace Potters, Manufacturing?

Not entirely. Today's AI tools can take on about 15% of the typical work in this occupation, mostly: design clay forms and molds, and decorations for forms. The parts that stay human include: Raise and shape clay into wares, such as vases and pitchers, on revolving wheels, using hands, fingers, and thumbs.; Mix and apply glazes to pottery pieces, using tools, such as spray guns.; Press thumbs into centers of revolving clay to form hollows, and press on the inside and outside of emerging clay cylinders with hands and fingers, gradually raising and shaping clay to desired forms and sizes..

People who learn to use AI for the automatable parts keep the edge. The 3-phase plan below shows where to start.

Your human edge

• Raise and shape clay into wares, such as vases and pitchers, on revolving wheels, using hands, fingers, and thumbs.
• Mix and apply glazes to pottery pieces, using tools, such as spray guns.
• Press thumbs into centers of revolving clay to form hollows, and press on the inside and outside of emerging clay cylinders with hands and fingers, gradually raising and shaping clay to desired forms and sizes.

AI tools to try

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