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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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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