Roof Bolters, Mining
Operate machinery to install roof support bolts in underground mine.
2,160 people do this job in the US. $78,540 a year.
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Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
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Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 0%. Today's estimate: 0%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 14 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Install various types of bolts, including truss, glue, and resin bolts, traversing entire ceiling spans.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 28% | 42 min25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Perform ventilation tasks, such as hanging ventilation curtains and tubes.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 11% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Drill test holes and test bolts for specified tension, using torque wrenches.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 9% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Dust rocks after bolting.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 8% | 17 min8 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Pull down loose rock that cannot be supported.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 7% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Perform safety checks on equipment before operating.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 13 min8 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Position bolting machines, and insert drill bits into chucks.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Drill bolt holes into roofs at specified distances from ribs or adjacent bolts.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Position safety jacks to support underground mine roofs until bolts can be installed.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Force bolts into holes, using hydraulic mechanisms of self-propelled bolting machines.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 7 min3 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Tighten ends of anchored truss bolts, using turnbuckles.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Perform tests to determine if methane gas is present.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 3% | 4 min3 min to 8 min | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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