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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Gold Assayer” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Gold Assayer” 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%

“Gold Assayer” 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

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

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

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