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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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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