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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

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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