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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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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