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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Color Maker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Color Maker” 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%

“Color Maker” 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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

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