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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

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

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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