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Orthotists and Prosthetists
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 12.9% more of these jobs by 2035, faster than the 3.5% average.
Clinical work often uses specialised medical AI tools that consumer Copilot data does not see, so this file probably understates how much AI touches it.
- Rank
- Joint #628 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +12.9% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $81,110 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 9,500 in the US, with about 700 openings a year
The work, 13 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
Still yours: Fabricate medical devices24%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Adjust medical equipment to ensure adequate performance13%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Supervise personnel activities9%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Train others on health or medical topics8%
AI does this in desk jobs, but in this one it is mostly hands-on.
Still yours: Maintain health or medical records7%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Train others to use equipment or products7%
AI does this in desk jobs, but in this one it is mostly hands-on.
Still yours: Collect information about patients or clients7%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Examine people or animals to assess health conditions or physical characteristics7%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Design materials or devices6%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 820 conversations, and it got them there 57% of the time.
Still yours: Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care4%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI does this: Maintain current knowledge in area of expertise4%
AI performed this in about 1 in 40 Copilot conversations and completed it 91% of the time.
AI helps with this: Research healthcare issues3%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 142 conversations, and it got them there 93% of the time.
AI does this: Present research or technical information1%
AI performed this in about 1 in 30 Copilot conversations and completed it 90% of the time.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 113 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
About 700 openings a year, from growth and from people who retire or move on.
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
The jobs closest to this one. None of them is much less exposed.
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The wire
On the wire.
Nothing filed about this job yet. The latest from the Health front:
How to read this file.
deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.05, higher than 12% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Clinical work often uses specialised medical AI tools that consumer Copilot data does not see, so this file probably understates how much AI touches it.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 29-2091 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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