Feed patients.

Feed patients. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 6 occupations and seen in 7 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Assist individuals with special needs. 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 7 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 0.003% 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.

• Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink. · Nursing Assistants · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Prepare or serve food trays. · Nursing Assistants · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Prepare feed for animals according to specific instructions, such as diet lists or schedules. · Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Serve meals or feed patients needing assistance or persuasion. · Psychiatric Aides · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets. · Home Health Aides · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Serve refreshments to donors to ensure absorption of sugar into their systems. · Phlebotomists · importance 3.7 · no direct exposure
• Serve or collect food trays. · Orderlies · importance 2.4 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Nursing Assistants
• Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers
• Psychiatric Aides
• Home Health Aides
• Phlebotomists
• Orderlies

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.

@misc{singulariki-feed-patients,
  title  = {Feed patients.},
  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},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/feed-patients}
}