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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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

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

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