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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Clinical Laboratory Scientist (Clinical Lab Scientist)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #56 of 702. Estimated risk: 1.2%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Clinical Laboratory Scientist (Clinical Lab Scientist)” 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 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

48%

“Clinical Laboratory Scientist (Clinical Lab Scientist)” 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 48% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Microbiologists, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Investigate the growth, structure, development, and other characteristics of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, algae, or fungi. Includes medical microbiologists who study the relationship between organisms and disease or the effects of antibiotics on microorganisms.

Avg. Annual Salary $95,200
Avg. Hourly Wage $45.77
Available Jobs (US) 19,760
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Microbiologists #19-1022
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Microbiologists”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Isolate and maintain cultures of bacteria or other microorganisms in prescribed or developed media, controlling moisture, aeration, temperature, and nutrition.

  • Provide laboratory services for health departments, community environmental health programs, and physicians needing information for diagnosis and treatment.

  • Investigate the relationship between organisms and disease, including the control of epidemics and the effects of antibiotics on microorganisms.

  • Study growth, structure, development, and general characteristics of bacteria and other microorganisms to understand their relationship to human, plant, and animal health.

  • Examine physiological, morphological, and cultural characteristics, using microscope, to identify and classify microorganisms in human, water, and food specimens.

  • Develop new products and procedures for sterilization, food and pharmaceutical supply preservation, or microbial contamination detection.

  • Observe action of microorganisms upon living tissues of plants, higher animals, and other microorganisms, and on dead organic matter.

  • Prepare technical reports and recommendations, based upon research outcomes.

  • Research use of bacteria and microorganisms to develop vitamins, antibiotics, amino acids, grain alcohol, sugars, and polymers.

  • Conduct chemical analyses of substances such as acids, alcohols, and enzymes.

  • Study the structure and function of human, animal, and plant tissues, cells, pathogens, and toxins.

  • Use a variety of specialized equipment, such as electron microscopes, gas and high-pressure liquid chromatographs, electrophoresis units, thermocyclers, fluorescence-activated cell sorters, and phosphorimagers.

  • Supervise biological technologists and technicians and other scientists.

  • Monitor and perform tests on water, food, and the environment to detect harmful microorganisms or to obtain information about sources of pollution, contamination, or infection.

Technologies & Software

  • BD Biosciences CellQuest
  • Database management software
  • FindTarget
  • Computer Service & Support CLS-2000 Laboratory System
  • Gene Finder
  • Email software
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Microsoft Windows
  • PredictProtein
  • BD Biosciences CloneCyt
  • Orchard Software Orchard Harvest LIS
  • Consensus
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • Bruker Optics OPUS
  • Elicit
  • Gene recognition software
  • Pathogen Modeling Program PMP
  • Scite AI
  • Protein databases
  • Word processing software
  • Assistant Software for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Interpretation ASASI
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • TreeView
  • NotebookLM (Google)
  • DeepSeek
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
  • Protein Explorer
  • WHONET
  • Statistical software
  • Semantic Scholar AI
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • Genie Interactive
  • Laboratory information management system LIMS
  • PIBWin
  • ProtScale
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Excel
  • FramePlot
  • Image capture and analysis software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Grok (xAI)
  • ComBase
  • NetLims AutoLims
  • STARLIMS
  • Proscan
  • BtB Software Mycobacteriology Lab
  • DM2 Bills of Lading
  • Microsoft Word
  • Perplexity AI
  • Verity Software House ModFit LT
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Mistral AI (chat/models)
  • Computing Solutions LabSoft LIMS Micro
  • Codon Usage Database
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Web browser software
  • PHYLIP
  • SAP software
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Heat blocks
  • Fluorescent microscopes
  • Microcentrifuges
  • Impedance meters
  • Pipette pumps
  • Protective laboratory coats
  • High pressure liquid chromatographs HPLC
  • Serology rotators
  • Semidry blotting apparatus
  • Bioaerosol impactors
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Vortex mixers
  • Rotator mixers
  • Test tube racks
  • Coplin jars
  • Dissecting microscopes
  • Bubble counters
  • Liquid impingers
  • Gel electrophoresis boxes
  • Darkroom developing tanks
  • Transilluminators
  • Water purification systems
  • Microscope slides
  • Gas-powered generators
  • Analytical balances
  • Micromanipulators
  • Charge coupled device CCD color digital cameras
  • Orbital shaking incubators
  • Colony counters
  • Scanning electron microscopes SEM
  • Petri dishes
  • Refrigerated recirculating water baths
  • Automated microbial identification systems
  • Chemical safety showers
  • Dichotomous particulate matter samplers
  • Bacticinerators
  • Laser printers
  • Dry bath incubators
  • Automatic cell sorters
  • Multistage agar impactors
  • Direct heat dry wall carbon dioxide CO2 incubators
  • Photomicroscopes
  • Laboratory beakers
  • Drying ovens
  • Recording thermometers
  • Multiwell trays
  • Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ELISA plate readers
  • Laboratory gas burners
  • Dropping pipettes
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Automatic coverslipper
  • 8-channel electronic pipettes
  • X ray diffractometers
  • Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Argon lasers
  • Bioreactors
  • Laboratory refrigerators
  • Sectioned petri plates
  • Steroclaves
  • Fire extinguishers
  • High-speed centrifuges
  • Mid-infrared spectrometers
  • Floor shakers
  • Laboratory glassware washers
  • Desktop centrifuges
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Autoclaves
  • Hybridization ovens
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Infrared gas analyzers
  • Erlenmeyer flasks
  • Multiplate readers
  • Oil-immersion microscope lenses
  • Freeze dryers
  • Gel transfer apparatus
  • Electronic sterilizers
  • Micro balances
  • Culture bottles
  • Raman spectrometers
  • Biological safety hoods
  • Deionized DI water systems
  • Desktop computers
  • Inverted microscopes
  • Notebook computers
  • Orbital shaking water baths
  • Culture tubes
  • Automatic pipetters
  • Magnetic laboratory stirrers
  • Respirators
  • Gel documentation systems
  • Inoculating loops
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Heating stirplates
  • Laboratory membrane filtering devices
  • Anaerobic growth chambers
  • Bright field light microscopes
  • Visible spectrometers
  • Thermocyclers
  • Osmometers
  • Hardy Diagnostics HUGO
  • French presses
  • Shaking incubators
  • Bacteriological incubators
  • Compound binocular light microscopes
  • Peristaltic pumps
  • Laminar flow cabinets
  • Rechargeable electronic pipette fillers
  • Safety shoes
  • Conductivity meters
  • Safety glasses
  • Staining dishes
  • Laboratory funnels
  • Ultra cold biological freezers
  • Gas chromatographs GC
  • Infrared IR spectrometers
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Erlenmeyer flask clamps
  • Laboratory heat exchange condensing devices
  • Fluorescence activated cell sorters
  • Prepared agar plates
  • Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers
  • Automated gram stainers
  • Gel support frames
  • Electroporators
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Fecal coliform water baths
  • pH meters
  • Water sample collection containers
  • Visible/UV light scanning spectrophotometers
  • Micropipettes
  • Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
  • Microcalorimeters
  • Precision pan balances
  • Laboratory test tubes
  • Graduated glass laboratory cylinders
  • Liquid chromatograph devices
  • Flow cytometers
  • Membrane filtration systems
  • Phase contrast microscopes
  • Liquid nitrogen storage equipment
  • Transmission electron microscopes TEM
  • Alcohol lamps
  • Tissue homogenizers
  • Personal computers
  • HEPA filtered biosafety cabinets
  • Protective gloves
  • Sonicators
  • Helium-neon lasers

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