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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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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