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Welder: will AI take this job?

15%Safe as houses
Welding robots exist. They hate ladders and crooked pipes.

Why

Factory welding is automated, but repairs, construction and pipelines need skilled hands.

Where to look next

  1. Specialist welding (underwater, pipelines, energy)
  2. Welding inspector
  3. Welding robot operator

What AI already does

  • Repetitive factory welds

What stays human

  • Repairs on site
  • Hard-to-reach joints

Skills worth learning — Trades & construction

  • Energy: heat pumps, solar, batteries
  • Smart-home and automation
  • Running your own business

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For fun, not a forecast. Scores are our rough estimates of how much of a job’s tasks AI can already help with, based on the ILO (2025) and Microsoft Research (2025) studies. Exposure usually means the job changes, not that it disappears — the ILO puts about 1 in 4 jobs worldwide in exposed occupations, but only 3.3% in the highest category.