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Night Vision

Ability · O*NET work requirement

The ability to see under low-light conditions.

In the O*NET occupational database, Night 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 4 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 Night 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
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 3.4 3.9
Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity 3.0 2.8
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 3.0 2.9
Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs 3.0 2.4
Commercial Pilots 2.8 3.0
First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers 2.8 2.1
Locomotive Engineers 2.8 2.5
Motorboat Operators 2.8 2.8
Parking Attendants 2.8 2.4
Subway and Streetcar Operators 2.8 2.1
Bus Drivers, School 2.6 2.3
Commercial Divers 2.6 2.1
Continuous Mining Machine Operators 2.6 2.6
Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining 2.6 2.3
Fishing and Hunting Workers 2.6 2.8
Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators and Locomotive Firers 2.6 2.5
Sailors and Marine Oilers 2.6 2.5
Transit and Railroad Police 2.6 3.0
Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels 2.5 2.9
Logging Equipment Operators 2.5 2.0
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers 2.5 2.5
Roof Bolters, Mining 2.5 2.5
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 2.4 2.3
Firefighters 2.4 2.6
Light Truck Drivers 2.4 2.3
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers 2.4 1.9
Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors 2.4 1.9
Airfield Operations Specialists 2.3 2.0
Bridge and Lock Tenders 2.3 2.0
Fish and Game Wardens 2.3 2.1
Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining 2.3 2.3
Pest Control Workers 2.3 2.0
Security Managers 2.3 2.0
Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas 2.1 2.1
Air Traffic Controllers 2.1 2.1
Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians 2.1 2.1
First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers 2.1 2.0
First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers 2.1 1.1
Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers 2.1 1.9
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators 2.1 2.0

How AI is used by roles that need Night 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). 25.0% of the 4 roles where this is important carry observed AI-usage data (1 roles).

Across those roles, 38.1% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 40.5% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 4.00 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 40.5% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 38.1% you and AI go back and forth

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
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 3.0 38.1% 4.0/5

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 Night Vision matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly rely on Night 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 1.7% of workers are in occupations that significantly rely on Night Vision (measured across 47 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Transportation and Warehousing 1,432,750 19.4%
Wholesale Trade 270,560 4.5%
Manufacturing 160,100 1.3%
Construction 133,940 1.6%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 118,790 1.3%
Retail Trade 89,460 0.6%
Health Care and Social Assistance 53,590 0.2%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing 35,240 1.5%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction 32,730 5.7%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 26,940 0.6%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 18,010 0.2%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting 13,750 3.2%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Transportation and Warehousing Sector 11.41× 19.4%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction Sector 3.35× 5.7%
Wholesale Trade Sector 2.65× 4.5%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Sector 1.88× 3.2%
Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors National industry 1.24× 2.1%
Construction Sector 0.94× 1.6%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing Sector 0.88× 1.5%
Manufacturing Sector 0.76× 1.3%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services Sector 0.76× 1.3%
Landscaping Services National industry 0.41× 0.7%
Retail Trade Sector 0.35× 0.6%
Other Services (except Public Administration) Sector 0.35× 0.6%

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
Peripheral Vision Ability 4
Glare Sensitivity Ability 3
Spatial Orientation Ability 4
Response Orientation Ability 4
Depth Perception Ability 4
Rate Control Ability 4
Transportation Knowledge 4
Auditory Attention Ability 4
Time Sharing Ability 4
Reaction Time Ability 4
Hearing Sensitivity Ability 2
Law and Government Knowledge 4

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. "Night 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/night-vision

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Singulariki. (2026). Night Vision. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/abilities/night-vision

BibTeX
@misc{singulariki-night-vision,
  title  = {Night 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/night-vision}
}

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