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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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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