Inspect cargo, baggage, and personal articles entering or leaving U.S. for compliance with revenue laws and U.S. customs regulations.

“Inspect cargo, baggage, and personal articles entering or leaving U.S. for compliance with revenue laws and U.S. customs regulations.” is a core task performed by Customs and Border Protection Officers. Among the occupation's 11 rated tasks, workers place it 9th by importance (#3 most important). About 97% 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.

• Inspect characteristics or conditions of materials or products. in Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

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 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.002% share of AI-use records mapped to this task

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Examine immigration applications, visas, and passports and interview persons to determine eligibility for admission, residence, and travel in the U.S. · importance 4.8
• Detain persons found to be in violation of customs or immigration laws and arrange for legal action, such as deportation. · importance 4.6
• Locate and seize contraband, undeclared merchandise, and vehicles, aircraft, or boats that contain such merchandise. · importance 4.6
• Interpret and explain laws and regulations to travelers, prospective immigrants, shippers, and manufacturers. · importance 4.4
• Institute civil and criminal prosecutions and cooperate with other law enforcement agencies in the investigation and prosecution of those in violation of immigration or customs laws. · importance 4.3
• Testify regarding decisions at immigration appeals or in federal court. · importance 4.2
• Record and report job-related activities, findings, transactions, violations, discrepancies, and decisions. · importance 4.2
• Determine duty and taxes to be paid on goods. · importance 4.0
• Collect samples of merchandise for examination, appraisal, or testing. · importance 3.8
• Investigate applications for duty refunds and petition for remission or mitigation of penalties when warranted. · importance 3.1

See all tasks on the Customs and Border Protection Officers 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
• 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.

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  title  = {Inspect cargo, baggage, and personal articles entering or leaving U.S. for compliance with revenue laws and U.S. customs regulations.},
  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/tasks/task-9454}
}