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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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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