Security & Emergency Services

10 careers in Security & Emergency Services, ranked safest first: the career with the lowest AI exposure score, meaning the smallest share of its day-to-day work AI can already do, is at the top. For 4 of them the moat, what structurally protects the job, has not been classified yet; their cards say so rather than guessing.

Security & Emergency Services at a glance
MOAT CLASSIFIED6 of 10 total
NO MOAT0
HAS A MOAT6
MOAT NOT YET CLASSIFIED4
MEDIAN AI EXPOSURE8 /100

Protective Service3

CCTV Operator

8

Security & Emergency Services

AI IMPACT
AI CAN DO8%moving to53%
THE DOOR, NOWB
THE DOOR, 20 YRSC
PHYSICAL MOATThe work is hands-on, in the real world. Software alone can't do it.
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Door Supervisor

8

Security & Emergency Services

AI IMPACT
AI CAN DO8%moving to48%
THE DOOR, NOWB
THE DOOR, 20 YRSC
REGULATORY MOATThe law requires human oversight. That human could be you.
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Security Guards and Officers

8

Security & Emergency Services

AI IMPACT
AI CAN DO8%moving to48%
THE DOOR, NOWB
THE DOOR, 20 YRSC
REGULATORY MOATThe law requires human oversight. That human could be you.
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Management2

Security Services Managers and Proprietors

30

Security & Emergency Services

AI IMPACT
AI CAN DO30%moving to72%
THE DOOR, NOWB
THE DOOR, 20 YRSD
REGULATORY MOATThe law requires human oversight. That human could be you.
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Security Consultants and Managers

55

Security & Emergency Services

AI IMPACT
AI CAN DO55%moving to93%
THE DOOR, NOWC
THE DOOR, 20 YRSD
REGULATORY MOATThe law requires human oversight. That human could be you.
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Installation, Maintenance & Repair1

Security System Installers and Repairers

8

Security & Emergency Services

AI IMPACT
AI CAN DO8%moving to53%
THE DOOR, NOWB
THE DOOR, 20 YRSC
PHYSICAL MOATThe work is hands-on, in the real world. Software alone can't do it.
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Uncategorised4

These careers have no record in our AI outlook register, so there is no O*NET occupation code to group them by. Listed here rather than guessed into a category.

Bouncer

8

Security & Emergency Services

AI IMPACT
AI CAN DO8%moving to53%
THE DOOR, NOWB
THE DOOR, 20 YRSD
MOAT NOT YET CLASSIFIEDA real score, but the moat is not yet classified. No claim either way.
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Nightclub Doorman

8

Security & Emergency Services

AI IMPACT
AI CAN DO8%moving to53%
THE DOOR, NOWB
THE DOOR, 20 YRSD
MOAT NOT YET CLASSIFIEDA real score, but the moat is not yet classified. No claim either way.
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CCTV Operator

8

Security & Emergency Services

AI IMPACT
AI CAN DO8%moving to53%
THE DOOR, NOWB
THE DOOR, 20 YRSD
MOAT NOT YET CLASSIFIEDA real score, but the moat is not yet classified. No claim either way.
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Security Guards and Related Occupations

8

Security & Emergency Services

AI IMPACT
AI CAN DO8%moving to53%
THE DOOR, NOWB
THE DOOR, 20 YRSD
MOAT NOT YET CLASSIFIEDA real score, but the moat is not yet classified. No claim either way.
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AI EXPOSURE = the share of a job's day-to-day tasks AI can already do today, from the same exposure engine used across this site (Anthropic labour market research, 2026, observed real-world AI usage by occupation). Higher means more exposed. It is a measurement of now, not a prediction. THE DOOR = how hard the job is to get into, grade A (easy) to E (extremely hard), from each career's published forecast (OpenAI, "The AI Jobs Transition Framework", Richmond 2026, CC BY 4.0). A card marked MOAT NOT YET CLASSIFIED has a real exposure score but no entry yet in our moat register, so we make no claim about what structurally protects it. Scorecard grades and verdicts are Careermash editorial judgment: we show forecasts as forecasts and own our conclusions. Salary and pathway figures are each career's own published profile. Careermash is a service provided by What School Ltd.

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