Cut meat products.

Cut meat products. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 3 occupations and seen in 13 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Prepare foods or beverages. in Handling and Moving Objects .

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 13 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).

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.

• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing. · Slaughterers and Meat Packers · importance 4.7 · no direct exposure
• Use knives, cleavers, meat saws, bandsaws, or other equipment to perform meat cutting and trimming. · Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare in cooking form. · Butchers and Meat Cutters · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass. · Slaughterers and Meat Packers · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Prepare special cuts of meat ordered by customers. · Butchers and Meat Cutters · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals. · Slaughterers and Meat Packers · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Process primal parts into cuts that are ready for retail use. · Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal. · Slaughterers and Meat Packers · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls. · Slaughterers and Meat Packers · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Cut and trim meat to prepare for packing. · Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Prepare ready-to-heat foods by filleting meat or fish or cutting it into bite-sized pieces, preparing and adding vegetables or applying sauces or breading. · Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Clean, trim, slice, and section carcasses for future processing. · Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Shape, lace, and tie roasts, using boning knife, skewer, and twine. · Butchers and Meat Cutters · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Slaughterers and Meat Packers
• Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
• Butchers and Meat Cutters

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
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-cut-meat-products,
  title  = {Cut meat products.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/cut-meat-products}
}