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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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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