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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

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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