Blow tubing into specified shapes to prevent glass from collapsing, using compressed air or own breath, or blow and rotate gathers in molds or on boards to obtain final shapes.

“Blow tubing into specified shapes to prevent glass from collapsing, using compressed air or own breath, or blow and rotate gathers in molds or on boards to obtain final shapes.” is a supplemental task performed by Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers. Among the occupation's 19 rated tasks, workers place it 15th by importance (#5 most important). About 51% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Shape materials to create products. in Handling and Moving Objects

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Place glass into dies or molds of presses and control presses to form products, such as glassware components or optical blanks. · importance 4.7
• Spray or swab molds with oil solutions to prevent adhesion of glass. · importance 4.6
• Heat glass to pliable stage, using gas flames or ovens and rotating glass to heat it uniformly. · importance 4.5
• Inspect, weigh, and measure products to verify conformance to specifications, using instruments such as micrometers, calipers, magnifiers, or rulers. · importance 4.5
• Determine types and quantities of glass required to fabricate products. · importance 4.2
• Set up and adjust machine press stroke lengths and pressures and regulate oven temperatures, according to glass types to be processed. · importance 4.2
• Record manufacturing information, such as quantities, sizes, or types of goods produced. · importance 4.2
• Shape, bend, or join sections of glass, using paddles, pressing and flattening hand tools, or cork. · importance 4.2
• Design and create glass objects, using blowpipes and artisans' hand tools and equipment. · importance 4.1
• Operate and maintain finishing machines to grind, drill, sand, bevel, decorate, wash, or polish glass or glass products. · importance 4.0
• Repair broken scrolls by replacing them with new sections of tubing. · importance 3.8
• Develop sketches of glass products into blueprint specifications, applying knowledge of glass technology and glass blowing. · importance 3.8
• Superimpose bent tubing on asbestos patterns to ensure accuracy. · importance 3.7
• Cut lengths of tubing to specified sizes, using files or cutting wheels. · importance 3.7

See all tasks on the Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers page.

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-task-12633,
  title  = {Blow tubing into specified shapes to prevent glass from collapsing, using compressed air or own breath, or blow and rotate gathers in molds or on boards to obtain final shapes.},
  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/tasks/task-12633}
}