Air Traffic Controllers
Transportation and Material MovingAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Air Traffic Controllers with an AI automation risk score of 25%. Analysis includes 23 core tasks.
Safer Career Paths
Commercial Pilots
16% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters
25% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
Subway and Streetcar Operators
0% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
Key Tasks
Initiate or coordinate searches for missing aircraft.
Organize flight plans or traffic management plans to prepare for planes about to enter assigned airspace.
Issue landing and take-off authorizations or instructions.
Check conditions and traffic at different altitudes in response to pilots' requests for altitude changes.
Inform pilots about nearby planes or potentially hazardous conditions
Transfer control of departing flights to traffic control centers and accept control of arriving flights.
Provide flight path changes or directions to emergency landing fields for pilots traveling in bad weather or in emergency situations.
Alert airport emergency services in cases of emergency or when aircraft are experiencing difficulties.
Upskilling Courses
Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data