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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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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