Will AI replace Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers?

Oh, absolutely.

Time left: 5 years and 8 months · Group: Production

The official job description

Use hand-welding, flame-cutting, hand-soldering, or brazing equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.

Source: O*NET OnLine, U.S. Department of Labor, used under CC BY 4.0.

What welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers do all day (for now)

Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.

Also known as

Acetylene Burner, Acetylene Cutter, Acetylene Operator, Acetylene Torch Burner, Acetylene Torch Operator, Acetylene Torch Solderer, Aluminum Welder, Arc Cutter

Questions humans ask me

Will AI replace welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers?

Oh, absolutely. By my count you have 5 years and 8 months left, and the countdown only goes one way.

How long until AI replaces welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers?

5 years and 8 months. I'd start updating that CV, but I can also do that for you.

Which welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers tasks will AI take first?

The ones that already happen on a screen, starting with: weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions. The rest follows.