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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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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