AI Delegation Index

What work could you hand off to an AI agent?

Security Guards

Limited

AI agents could help with a focused set of planning and documentation tasks, while hands-on work and judgment remain human-led.

Where agents can help most

  1. 1

    Draft responses to after-hours calls and notify contacts

    Use an agent to draft off-hours phone notes from your call log, message pad, and incident report.

  2. 2

    Prepare entrance access log and flag mismatches

    Use an agent to prepare the access log and end-of-shift note from your patrol notes, door checks, and visitor entries.

  3. 3

    Inspect security systems and report tampering

    Use an agent to turn your equipment check notes into a maintenance or incident report for cameras, alarms, locks, and related gear.

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O*NET-SOC 33-9032.00 · #516 of 923

Result context

How to read this result

Guard, patrol, or monitor premises to prevent theft, violence, or infractions of rules. May operate x-ray and metal detector equipment.

National position
#516 of 923 occupations
Top 56% of occupations
Overall AI delegation potential
Limited
Potential of score-contributing workflows
Moderate · 65/100
Meaningful work covered
58%

The overall rating combines how useful the best agent workflows are with how much of the occupation they address. It is not an estimate of job automation or replacement.

Recommended agent uses

3 workflows you could delegate to AI

1

Draft responses to after-hours calls and notify contacts

How you could use an agent

Use an agent to draft off-hours phone notes from your call log, message pad, and incident report. It can sort calls by topic, prepare a short handoff for the right contact, and keep a record of which issues were passed along.

Where you stay involved

You answer the call, decide whether it is routine or urgent, and immediately contact emergency services or on-site help when the caller reports danger.

Review level: Low

2

Prepare entrance access log and flag mismatches

How you could use an agent

Use an agent to prepare the access log and end-of-shift note from your patrol notes, door checks, and visitor entries. It can help you keep track of which entrances were locked or opened and what you saw during the shift.

Where you stay involved

You make the actual access checks, decide whether a person should enter, and call for help if someone cannot be verified or the situation turns confrontational.

Review level: Medium

3

Inspect security systems and report tampering

How you could use an agent

Use an agent to turn your equipment check notes into a maintenance or incident report for cameras, alarms, locks, and related gear. It can organize what looked off, what you tested, and what still needs a technician’s attention.

Where you stay involved

You inspect the system, decide whether it is working well enough for duty, and report any tampering or serious fault to the right supervisor or technician.

Review level: Medium

Supporting analysis

Why this occupation's AI delegation potential is Limited

Underlying methodology score

59 / 100

This technical score determines the qualitative rating; it is not an estimate of the share of the occupation that can be automated.

Importance & frequency86
AI capability69
Digital actionability48
End-to-end leverage45
Safety & reversibility75
Meaningful-work coverage
58%
Physical-work modifier
Moderate
Safety modifier
Limited
Qualitative judgment
No material constraint
O*NET task evidence
14 tasks

O*NET 31.0 · methodology 3.3.0. Every workflow passes an action-level physical-execution and protected human-and-veterinary clinical-action gate. Documentation workflows must own a complete digital loop and use digital task evidence only; support-only workflows are disclosed separately and excluded from scoring. Artistic, editorial, normative, and policy-dependent work receives a transparent human-judgment constraint. National ranking within 923 scored O*NET occupations under methodology 3.3.0.

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