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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #99 of 702. Estimated risk: 2.7%

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AI Exposure Risk

62%

“Chemist” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 62% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

47%

“Chemist” will probably not be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 47% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Biochemists and Biophysicists, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Study the chemical composition or physical principles of living cells and organisms, their electrical and mechanical energy, and related phenomena. May conduct research to further understanding of the complex chemical combinations and reactions involved in metabolism, reproduction, growth, and heredity. May determine the effects of foods, drugs, serums, hormones, and other substances on tissues and vital processes of living organisms.

Avg. Annual Salary $115,570
Avg. Hourly Wage $55.56
Available Jobs (US) 34,520
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Biochemists and Biophysicists #19-1021
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Biochemists and Biophysicists”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Design or perform experiments with equipment, such as lasers, accelerators, or mass spectrometers.

  • Research the chemical effects of substances, such as drugs, serums, hormones, or food, on tissues or vital processes.

  • Teach or advise undergraduate or graduate students or supervise their research.

  • Isolate, analyze, or synthesize vitamins, hormones, allergens, minerals, or enzymes and determine their effects on body functions.

  • Prepare pharmaceutical compounds for commercial distribution.

  • Research how characteristics of plants or animals are carried through successive generations.

  • Develop or execute tests to detect diseases, genetic disorders, or other abnormalities.

  • Study spatial configurations of submicroscopic molecules, such as proteins, using x-rays or electron microscopes.

  • Investigate the nature, composition, or expression of genes or research how genetic engineering can impact these processes.

  • Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules.

  • Design or build laboratory equipment needed for special research projects.

  • Develop new methods to study the mechanisms of biological processes.

  • Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes.

  • Examine the molecular or chemical aspects of immune system functioning.

  • Manage laboratory teams or monitor the quality of a team's work.

  • Study the mutations in organisms that lead to cancer or other diseases.

  • Research transformations of substances in cells, using atomic isotopes.

  • Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research.

  • Study the chemistry of living processes, such as cell development, breathing and digestion, or living energy changes, such as growth, aging, or death.

  • Study physical principles of living cells or organisms and their electrical or mechanical energy, applying methods and knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, or biology.

  • Share research findings by writing scientific articles or by making presentations at scientific conferences.

  • Develop methods to process, store, or use foods, drugs, or chemical compounds.

  • Produce pharmaceutically or industrially useful proteins, using recombinant DNA technology.

  • Develop or test new drugs or medications intended for commercial distribution.

Technologies & Software

  • Gemini for Workspace
  • Gaussian software
  • Elsevier MDL ISIS/Draw
  • IBM SPSS Statistics
  • Semichem AMPAC
  • Wavefunction Spartan
  • Shrodinger Jaguar
  • Molecular simulation software
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Golden Helix ChemTree
  • Fujitsu MOPAC
  • SAS
  • Microsoft Word
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • Internet browser software
  • GEPASI
  • Crystallography software
  • Molecular Simulations WebLab ViewerPro
  • Wavefunction Titan
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Structure prediction software
  • GE Healthcare ImageQuant TL
  • Yet another scientific artificial reality application YASARA software
  • ChemInnovation Software Chem 4-D
  • Presentation software
  • Email software
  • Consensus
  • ItemTracker
  • PREMIER Biosoft Array Designer
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Docking and ligand binding software
  • Macroscopic diffusion software
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Carrier-mediated transport software
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Minitab
  • Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Laboratory information management system LIMS
  • Accelrys QAUNTA
  • Accelrys FELIX
  • Accelrys Cerius2
  • Fujitsu BioMedCache
  • Analysis and building software
  • Tripos SYBYL
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Multivariate statistical program MVSP software
  • Voltage-gated ion channels software
  • ESRI What if?
  • Intelligent Imaging Innovations SlideBook
  • Molecular Devices Corporation MetaMorph
  • SAP software
  • Video analysis software
  • Perl
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Genetics computer group GSG software
  • Molecular Networks GmbH Biochemical Pathways
  • Chang Bioscience ToolKit
  • Accelrys Insight II
  • Python
  • Hodgkin-Huxley Model software
  • Linux
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Molecular Devices Corporation MetaFluor
  • Golden Helix HelixTree
  • NotebookLM (Google)
  • DeepSeek
  • Semantic Scholar AI
  • Microsoft Excel
  • JustBio SeqPainter
  • 3D graphics software
  • Electronic lab notebook software
  • Word processing software
  • Mistral AI (chat/models)
  • Scite AI
  • Crystallography & NMR System (CNS)
  • Elicit
  • Expression DNA and protein sequence software
  • Graphics software
  • Statistical software
  • Dassault Systemes Abaqus
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Chemistry at Harvard Molecular Mechanics CHARMm
  • Perplexity AI
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • Sequence database software
  • R
  • Assisted model building with energy refinement AMBER
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • AutoQuant AutoDeblur
  • Auto gamma counters
  • Basic vapor pressure osmometers
  • Circulating water cooling systems
  • Isothermal titration calorimeters ITC
  • Microscope slides
  • Analytical ultracentrifuges
  • Lasers
  • Analytical balances
  • Confocal microscopes
  • Stopped-flow spectrophotometers
  • Ionometers
  • Linear accelerators
  • Microcentrifuges
  • Thermal imagers
  • Notebook computers
  • Raman difference spectrometers
  • Circular dichroism spectroscopes
  • Orbital shakers
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Microsusceptometers
  • Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance NMR equipment
  • Cytospin centrifuges
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Chemical fume hoods
  • Microinjectors
  • Gel boxes
  • Protein sequencers
  • Mettler balances
  • Brewster angle microscopes
  • Pipettes
  • Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI equipment
  • Refrigerated centrifuges
  • Balances
  • Microplate readers
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Dual wavelength spectroscopes
  • Shaking waterbaths
  • Cryostat tissue microtomes
  • Sample concentrators
  • Laboratory convection ovens
  • Near-field light microscopes
  • Water baths
  • Rheometers
  • Tabletop centrifuges
  • Peptide synthesizers
  • Scanning laser microscopes
  • Neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet Nd:YAG lasers
  • Water purification units
  • Beakers
  • Heating mantles
  • Personal computers
  • Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectroscopes
  • High-pressure high-temperature reactors
  • Laser induced temperature jump nanosecond relaxation spectrometer systems
  • Argon lasers
  • Flow cytometers
  • Carbon dioxide CO2 incubators
  • Charge-coupled device CCD cameras
  • Laser tweezers
  • Sartorius balances
  • Liquid handling robots
  • Darkroom equipment
  • Nanoscopes
  • Signal generators
  • Optical tweezers
  • X ray crystallography equipment
  • Plotters
  • Amino acid analyzers
  • Fermenters
  • Shaking incubators
  • Scanning electron microscopes SEM
  • Cryotransmission electron microscopes
  • Erlenmeyer flasks
  • Magnetic piconewton-force transducers
  • Atomic force microscopes
  • Phosphorimager video cameras
  • Sapphire lasers
  • Laminar flow hoods
  • Computerized axial tomography CAT scan equipment
  • Test tubes
  • Multichannel detectors
  • Electrophoresis power supplies
  • Chemistry analyzers
  • Transillumination microscopes
  • Capillary electrophoresis equipment
  • Langmuir balances
  • Ultraviolet UV transilluminators
  • Heat incubators
  • Mainframe computers
  • Large upright microscopes
  • Incubators
  • Top-loading electronic balances
  • Biofreezers
  • Pasteur pipettes
  • Laser printers
  • Glassware condensers
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Laser particle sizers
  • Rotating anode X ray generators
  • Viscometers
  • Gas chromatographs GC
  • Automatic pipetters
  • Positron emission tomography PET scanners
  • Multi-angle elastic-light scattering systems
  • Hot plates
  • Freeze dryers
  • Ultramicrotomes
  • Power amplifiers
  • Dichroic beamsplitters
  • Mossbauer spectroscopes
  • Cell sorters
  • Sonicators
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Electroencephalography EEG equipment
  • Autoclaves
  • pH meters
  • Gamma ray irradiators
  • Inverted microscopes
  • Scanners
  • Microphysiometers
  • Automatic x ray film developers
  • Graduated cylinders
  • Microdosimeters
  • Growth chambers
  • Light scattering devices
  • Megafuge centrifuges
  • Spectropolarimeters
  • Fluorescence spectroscopes
  • Spectrofluorimeters
  • Vacuum freezers
  • Binocular light compound microscopes
  • Flexi-dry lyophilizers
  • Solid state diode lasers
  • Heat blocks
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Homogenizers
  • Video positioning equipment
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Electron spin resonance spectroscopes
  • High-pressure liquid chromatographs
  • Biological safety hoods
  • Liquid nuclear magnetic resonance NMR equipment
  • Transmission electron microscopes TEM
  • Desktop computers
  • Scintillation counters
  • Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI microscopes
  • Cryogenic freezers
  • Magnetic tweezers
  • Krypton lasers
  • Synchrotrons
  • Continuous flow centrifuges
  • Electron microscopes
  • Phosphorimagers
  • Specific gravity balances
  • Laser Doppler zeta potential analyzers
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Electron paramagnetic resonance EPR spectrometers
  • Microcalorimeters
  • Hemoglobin analyzers
  • Glassware adaptors
  • Video enhanced differential interference contrast microscopes
  • Funnels
  • Ultrasonic cleaners
  • Cryocut microtomes
  • Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers
  • X ray microscopes
  • Automated electrophoresis equipment
  • Cryomicroscopes
  • Filtering funnels
  • Vibratome tissue sectioning systems

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