Craft and related trades workers · code 7125
Glaziers
AI can measure the window from a photo. Fitting the glass is still a careful, heavy job.
AI barely touches any of the four tasks: cutting and fitting glass in windows and skylights, replacing windscreens and building decorative glass features.
What they actually do (and what else they get called)
Glaziers measure, cut, finish, fit and install flat glass and mirrors. Tasks include - (a) selecting the type of glass to be used, cutting to right size and shape and installing in windows, doors, showers and partitions of buildings; (b) installing glass and mirrors in skylights, display cases, interior walls and ceilings; (c) installing or replacing windscreens in vehicles or boats; (d) creating decorative glass features such as glass walls, staircases, balustrades and stained-glass windows. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Autoglazier - Glazier - Roofing glazier - Vehicle glazier Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Glass cutter - 7315 - Glass finisher - 7315
- vehicle glazier
- plate glass installer
Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.
86 / 100
Strongly holds up against AI
Most of this job still needs an actual human. AI would mostly be making the tea.
Not the odds you keep your job. It's how much of the everyday work still needs a person, out of 100.
The ILO's official verdict: Not Exposed
56 of 427 for holding up against AI
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Why this score?
The ILO rated each of this job's 4 tasks for how much of it AI could do. They average 13.7 out of 100, so it holds up at 100 − 13.7 = 86.3.
That's the whole sum. No black box, no secret sauce: you can check it against the ILO's study. ILO group “Not Exposed”: None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count.
from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.8-observed-use
Pinch of salt: this number is probably too rosy
It only asks what AI software could do, and this job is 71 out of 100 hands-on. A chatbot can't do that part. A robot might, one day, and nobody measures how close that is.
Man v Bot · compare
Who holds up better?
Glaziers 86
vGo on, try your partner's job. Or your sibling's. We won't tell.
Man v Bot
Where the bot helps, and where the human wins
Bot
What AI takes
The routine stuff. You may not miss it.
- Measuring and quoting from photos.
- Ordering and cutting lists.
- Booking and scheduling jobs.
Man
What people still do better
Judgement, trust and skilled hands. Hard to download.
- Handling and fitting large panes safely.
- Decorative and stained glass work.
- Working at height and in tight spaces.
Both
What's arriving
New work that only exists because the AI does.
- Energy efficient glazing upgrades.
- Recalibrating car cameras after a windscreen replacement.
- Installing smart glass.
Written by a human, from the ILO's task ratings below. Yes, we see the irony. Read it as one person's take.
Meet your two rivals
They're not the same machine. AI software can only reach the parts of a job done on a screen or in words. A chatbot can't climb a ladder. A robot might, one day, if it doesn't fall off.
The AI
Lives in a screen. Never had to fix a boiler.
Threat level: Low
17 could do without you
It could take over very little of the work on its own. It could help with 54 of 100.
The robot
The wildcard. Has hands, still working out stairs.
How much it matters here: Higher
71 how hands-on
Most of this job needs hands, a body or turning up. That's robot territory, and nobody measures how far robots have got well enough to give you a number. We won't make one up.
So could a robot do the physical part?
More fine handwork, and more time in cramped or awkward spots, than a typical hands-on job. That is exactly what machines find hardest: they do best in tidy, predictable places.
Robots hate fiddly work in awkward spaces. On that measure, this job scores 46 out of 100. The higher it is, the longer the robot waits.
hands-on
and cramped
Kind of hands-on work Hands-on, fiddly work in tight spaces
The small print
They aren't a robot score, and nothing on this page is. Nobody measures how far robots have got well enough to put a number on it. These are the closest thing we have: how hands-on the job is, and how much fiddly, cramped work it takes, which is what Frey and Osborne found hardest for machines.
From O*NET, matched to one US job .
finger skill 42.9 · hand skill 44.6 · cramped spaces 51.5 · averaged · rule: hands-on 50+ · fiddly 39.4+
estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.8-observed-use measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement
The job, task by task
Every job is really a bundle of tasks. Here's this one unpacked, with how much of each AI could do, out of 100. The score is the average, and averages can hide a lot.
AI's favourite task here scores 14, against an average of 14. The bigger the gap, the more lopsided the job: some of it wide open to AI, some of it barely touched.
- 14
Creating decorative glass features such as glass walls, staircases, balustrades and stained-glass windows.
Very Low - 14
Installing or replacing windscreens in vehicles or boats
Very Low - 14
Selecting the type of glass to be used, cutting to right size and shape and installing in windows, doors, showers and partitions of buildings
Very Low - 13
Installing glass and mirrors in skylights, display cases, interior walls and ceilings
Very Low
4 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's
from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.8-observed-use
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Sidekick or replacement?
A tool that makes you faster is a very different thing from one that does the task while you watch. Jobs and Skills Australia measured the two separately, which is handy.
- AI helps you
- 54
- AI does it for you
- 17
Sidekick wins, by 37 points.
How good a match is this?
2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.
estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.8-observed-use matched to Australian jobs 3331, 8994
Meanwhile, in real life…
Everything else here is about what AI could do. This is what people actually did. When they asked Claude for help with this kind of work, did they hand the whole task over, or roll their sleeves up and work through it together?
Tiny sample alert This job makes up under 0.01% of all the conversations: a tiny slice, mostly the paperwork rather than the work. People using AI for a job isn't the same as AI being able to do it.
Out of every 100 conversations
worked through it together handed it over
The small print
Anthropic publishes this about its own product, and it doesn't feed into any score here. These are people who use Claude, not workers in general, so little use here doesn't mean AI can't reach the job.
These two add up to 100. The bars elsewhere on the page don't, because each is scored on its own, so we don't put them side by side.
observed use Anthropic Economic Index release 2026-06-26, period beginning 2026-05-01 data 0.8-observed-use 2026-05-01 · Anthropic, about its own product
So, should glaziers be worried?
Short answer: not really. Put the kettle on.
No. Every task rates Very Low, from cutting glass to fitting windscreens and decorative panels. Quoting and measuring tools help, but handling and installing glass stays hands-on.
Worth remembering: we score tasks, not jobs. When AI takes on a task, the job usually reshuffles around it rather than vanishing.
Where this job could lead
None of the new jobs we've written up start from here yet. Could be you're the first. See the jobs AI is creating →
How are the neighbours doing?
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