Design and create glass objects, using blowpipes and artisans' hand tools and equipment.

“Design and create glass objects, using blowpipes and artisans' hand tools and equipment.” is a supplemental task performed by Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers. Among the occupation's 19 rated tasks, workers place it 10th by importance (#10 most important). About 38% 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.

• Create artistic designs or performances. in Thinking Creatively

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
• 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. · importance 4.4
• 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
• 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.

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  title  = {Design and create glass objects, using blowpipes and artisans' hand tools and equipment.},
  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-12647}
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