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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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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