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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Colorist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Colorist” 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%

“Colorist” 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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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

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