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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Spectroscopist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Spectroscopist” 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%

“Spectroscopist” 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

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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