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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Mass Spectrometrist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Mass Spectrometrist” 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%

“Mass Spectrometrist” 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

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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