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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Cytologist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #56 of 702. Estimated risk: 1.2%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Cytologist” 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%

“Cytologist” 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

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

  • 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.

  • Supervise biological technologists and technicians and other scientists.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

Technologies & Software

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

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