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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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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