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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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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