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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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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