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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemist Helper” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemist Helper” 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 Helper” 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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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