Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.

“Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.” is a core task performed by Surveyors. Among the occupation's 24 rated tasks, workers place it 8th by importance (#17 most important). About 75% 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.

• Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance. 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

• Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles. · importance 4.9
• Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed. · importance 4.7
• Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents. · importance 4.6
• Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites. · importance 4.5
• Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed. · importance 4.5
• Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features. · importance 4.5
• Prepare, or supervise preparation of, all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys. · importance 4.5
• Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain. · importance 4.3
• Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features. · importance 4.3
• Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements. · importance 4.3
• Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments. · importance 4.2
• Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS). · importance 4.2
• Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps. · importance 4.1
• Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Surveyors 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-3538,
  title  = {Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.},
  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-3538}
}