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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

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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