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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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

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

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