A task performed by Civil Engineers
Analyze survey reports, maps, drawings, blueprints, aerial photography, or other topographical or geologic data.
Technically, much of it, experts rate AI capability 4/5, but workers don't want it automated (desire 2.57/5). It's an Automation Red Light: proceed with care.
Do you want this task automated?
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 7 workers).
How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 2 experts).
How much human involvement should stay?
The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.
Why workers feel the way they do
- Frees up time for higher-value work43%
- It's repetitive29%
- It's stressful29%
- Reduces human error29%
- Helps handle larger scale29%
- It's difficult14%
How to automate this
Doable with technology, but keep a person clearly in charge.
Analyzing & processing data
Let the spreadsheet or a BI tool do the math and the charts.
- 1Set up formulas and pivot tables once, so the numbers you need to analyze survey reports, maps, drawings, blueprints, aerial photography, or other topographical or geologic recalculate themselves.
- 2Connect a free dashboard so reports refresh themselves (Looker Studio, Power BI).
- 3Use AI to summarise the findings, but keep the numbers in the spreadsheet.
Tools that can help
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This is 1 of 5 tasks studied for Civil Engineers, where workers want 60% of tasks automated.
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