Assist customers to ensure comfort or safety.

Assist customers to ensure comfort or safety. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 11 occupations and seen in 18 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Provide general assistance to others, such as customers, patrons, or motorists. in Assisting and Caring for Others .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 18 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 0 (0%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 1 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.002% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Provide headphones or earplugs to patients to improve comfort and reduce unpleasant noise. · Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists · importance 4.8 · no direct exposure
• Secure passengers for transportation by buckling seatbelts or fastening wheelchairs with tie-down straps. · Passenger Attendants · importance 4.7 · no direct exposure
• Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles. · Parking Attendants · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Greet customers and open their car doors. · Parking Attendants · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Greet and seat customers. · Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Reassure passengers when situations, such as turbulence, are encountered. · Flight Attendants · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Assist with duties in other areas of the store, such as monitoring fitting rooms or bagging and carrying out customers' items. · Cashiers · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Regulate heating, lighting, and ventilation systems for passenger comfort. · Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Regulate heating, lighting, and ventilating systems for passenger comfort. · Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Regulate heating, lighting, and ventilation systems for student comfort. · Bus Drivers, School · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Provide customer assistance and information, such as giving directions or handling wheelchairs. · Parking Attendants · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets. · Flight Attendants · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Adjust window shades or seat cushions at the request of passengers. · Passenger Attendants · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Provide assistance in the safe use of equipment, such as ski lifts. · Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers · importance 3.6 · no direct exposure
• Heat and serve prepared foods. · Flight Attendants · importance 3.4 · no direct exposure
• Call emergency responders or the proper authorities and provide motorist assistance, such as giving directions or helping jump start a stalled vehicle. · Parking Attendants · importance 3.3 · no direct exposure
• Buckle seatbelts or fasten wheelchair tie-down straps to secure passengers for transportation. · School Bus Monitors · no direct exposure
• Evacuate students from the school bus in emergency situations. · School Bus Monitors · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists
• Passenger Attendants
• Parking Attendants
• Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers
• Flight Attendants
• Cashiers
• Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs
• Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity
• Bus Drivers, School
• Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers
• School Bus Monitors

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  title  = {Assist customers to ensure comfort or safety.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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