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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemist Assistant” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemist Assistant” 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

53%

“Chemist Assistant” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 53% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Chemical Technicians, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Avg. Annual Salary $61,300
Avg. Hourly Wage $29.47
Available Jobs (US) 55,640
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Chemical Technicians #19-4031
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

  • Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

  • Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.

  • Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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  • Ammeters
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • Voltmeters
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Prisms
  • Bell jars
  • Autotitrators
  • Cork borer sets
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Pressure gauges
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Claisen flasks
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Automatic burets
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Cooling baths
  • Steam baths
  • Nebulizers
  • Bunsen burners
  • Mainframe computers
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Multimeters
  • Immersion heaters
  • Lecture bottles
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Coulometers
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Lasers
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Canister gas masks
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Photo detectors
  • Radiation detectors
  • Agitation tanks
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Metering pumps
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Flame photometers
  • Desktop computers
  • Laminar flow burners
  • pH indicators
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Dye lasers
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Velometers
  • Laboratory balances
  • Glass tubing
  • Capillary tubing
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Face shields
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Pirani gauges
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Infrared lamps
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Rheometers
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Meker burners
  • Finger pumps
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Distilling condensers
  • Tension gauges
  • Personal computers
  • Safety gloves
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Polarizers
  • Sample crushers
  • Fluorimeters
  • Viscosity meters
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • McLeod gauges
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Pycnometers
  • Differential refractometers
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Filter pumps
  • Safety glasses
  • Comparators
  • Hot air blowers
  • Gas burners
  • Torsion balances
  • Mercury barometers
  • U-tube manometers
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Molecular stills
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Reflux condensers
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Graphing calculators
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Vacuum flask traps
  • Westphal balances
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Safety goggles
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Rotameters
  • Dessicators
  • Lyophilizers
  • Buchner funnels
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Utility clamps
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Thermocouples
  • Turbidimeters
  • Hydrometers
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Triple beam balances
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Glass burets
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Photocells
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Ruby lasers
  • Pull spring balances
  • Drying pistols
  • Ball mills
  • Heating mantles
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Safety showers
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  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Monochromators
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Test tube clamps
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Homogenizers
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Polarimeters
  • Titrators
  • Water aspirators
  • Ionization gauges
  • Single-pan balances

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