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Far Vision

Ability · O*NET work requirement

The ability to see details at a distance.

In the O*NET occupational database, Far Vision is an ability that work requires. O*NET rates how important it is (1–5) and what level of it a job needs (0–7) for every U.S. occupation. It is rated as important (3 or higher) in 397 of 894 occupations.

Breadth here means how widely O*NET rates this ability as important across occupations — not that it is rare, high-paying, or currently in employer demand.

Occupations that rely most on Far Vision

Ranked by O*NET importance to the occupation (1–5). Bars are sized against the 1–5 scale; the level column is what depth of the ability the job needs (0–7).

Occupation Importance Score Level
Locomotive Engineers 4.4 4.5
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 4.3 5.4
Air Traffic Controllers 4.1 4.3
Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity 4.1 3.6
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 4.1 3.9
Bus Drivers, School 4.0 3.5
Commercial Pilots 4.0 4.8
Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators 4.0 4.0
Motion Picture Projectionists 4.0 4.0
Sailors and Marine Oilers 4.0 4.4
Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs 4.0 3.6
Crane and Tower Operators 3.9 4.1
First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers 3.9 4.1
Photographers 3.9 4.0
Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers 3.9 4.1
Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials 3.9 4.0
Astronomers 3.8 4.0
Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film 3.8 4.1
Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels 3.8 4.1
Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining 3.8 3.8
Firefighters 3.8 3.9
Fish and Game Wardens 3.8 4.0
Fishing and Hunting Workers 3.8 4.1
Forensic Science Technicians 3.8 4.0
Government Property Inspectors and Investigators 3.8 3.9
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators 3.8 3.4
Media Technical Directors/Managers 3.8 4.0
Motorboat Operators 3.8 4.6
Security Guards 3.8 3.4
Subway and Streetcar Operators 3.8 3.6
Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders 3.8 3.1
Transit and Railroad Police 3.8 3.9
Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors 3.6 3.3
Airfield Operations Specialists 3.6 4.0
Architects, Except Landscape and Naval 3.6 4.0
Civil Engineers 3.6 3.6
Construction Managers 3.6 3.8
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 3.6 3.5
Helpers--Extraction Workers 3.6 3.4
Light Truck Drivers 3.6 3.4

Showing the top 40 of 397 occupations where this is important.

How AI is used by roles that need Far Vision

This ability is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles for which O*NET rates it important and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles (importance-weighted). 52.4% of the 397 roles where this is important carry observed AI-usage data (208 roles).

Across those roles, 41.7% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 31.4% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.62 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 29.1% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 21.0% you and AI go back and forth
learning 19.1% you ask AI to explain or teach
feedback loop 2.2% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback
validation 1.6% you do it; AI checks your work

Roles behind this signal

The roles where this ability is most important and that also have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Importance Works with AI Autonomy
Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary 3.0 63.2% 4.0/5
Instructional Coordinators 3.1 53.1% 4.0/5
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary 3.1 66.1% 4.0/5
Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary 3.3 65.7% 3.8/5
Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary 3.0 63.1% 4.0/5
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 3.0 62.3% 4.0/5
Bioinformatics Scientists 3.1 44.5% 4.0/5
Clergy 3.0 60.3% 4.0/5
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School 3.4 58.3% 4.0/5
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists 3.0 71.5% 4.0/5
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 3.0 49.7% 4.0/5
Chief Executives 3.0 65.7% 3.0/5

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Shares are of observed conversations, weighted by how important this ability is to each role; some conversations are left unclassified by Anthropic's taxonomy, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Far Vision matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly rely on Far Vision (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 24.9% of workers are in occupations that significantly rely on Far Vision (measured across 67 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Construction 5,499,390 67.7%
Educational Services 4,541,870 33.3%
Transportation and Warehousing 4,455,550 60.3%
Manufacturing 4,130,810 32.4%
Health Care and Social Assistance 2,924,590 12.7%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 2,855,280 31.6%
Accommodation and Food Services 1,975,150 13.9%
Wholesale Trade 1,879,290 31.1%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 1,650,540 15.3%
Retail Trade 1,570,170 10.1%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing 820,300 34.6%
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation 763,640 28.9%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors National industry 3.39× 84.3%
Masonry Contractors National industry 3.29× 81.8%
Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction National industry 3.17× 78.9%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Sector 3.03× 75.4%
Nuclear Electric Power Generation National industry 2.93× 73.0%
Roofing Contractors National industry 2.92× 72.6%
Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors National industry 2.87× 71.5%
Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors National industry 2.73× 68.1%
Construction Sector 2.72× 67.7%
Wind Electric Power Generation National industry 2.65× 65.9%
Exterminating and Pest Control Services National industry 2.64× 65.8%
Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation National industry 2.58× 64.3%

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

Capabilities required by many of the same occupations — a measure of which skills, knowledge and abilities tend to travel together, not a judgment of similarity.

Capability Type Shared occupations
Flexibility of Closure Ability 287
Selective Attention Ability 340
Deductive Reasoning Ability 382
Critical Thinking Basic skill 376
Information Ordering Ability 385
Problem Sensitivity Ability 391
Inductive Reasoning Ability 357
Judgment and Decision Making Cross-functional skill 337
Monitoring Basic skill 363
Oral Expression Ability 386
Oral Comprehension Ability 390
Perceptual Speed Ability 244

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Far Vision." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27). Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/abilities/far-vision

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  title  = {Far Vision},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27). Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/abilities/far-vision}
}

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