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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Scientific Research Associate” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Scientific Research Associate” 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%

“Scientific Research Associate” 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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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