Occupation

Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists

Perform complex medical laboratory tests for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. May train or supervise staff.

70 AI exposure

38 Human advantage

n/a Market demand

56 AI leverage

Is Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists a safe career from AI?

Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists scores 70 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 38, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first.

Where Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists can go next

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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