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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemistry Research Assistant” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemistry Research 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%

“Chemistry Research 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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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