By: The Editorial Board There’s a scene in the movie I, Robot where a robot-hating police officer, played by Will Smith, is questioning the manufacturer
See original post here. Universal basic income that’s double the average wage? Legislating in favor of human-algorithmic coexistence? These are just some of the policies
By: Zoe Kleinman. See original post here. It says its new model, the Apollo RT6, has the the road skills of a driver with 20
By: Joann Muller. See original post here. Nearly a decade after Amazon began working on drone delivery, customers living in one small California community will soon
By: Jennifer A. Kingson See original post here. We’re encountering lots more robots in our daily lives — delivering our food, pouring our drinks, mowing
By: Anthony Cuthbertson See the original post here. A self-steering ship has completed the world’s first transoceanic voyage of a large vessel using autonomous navigation
By: Joann Muller See original post here. Autonomous trucks developed by Gatik will soon be delivering paper plates and toilet tissue to Sam’s Club stores
By: Joann Muller. See original post here. General Motors-backed Cruise got the green light from California regulators last week to operate a commercial robotaxi service
By: Bethany Biron. See original post here. Highlights: Robot orders increased 40% in the first quarter of 2022, as businesses seek solutions to the labor
By: JEREMY KAHN Read full original here. The creation and editing of photorealistic digital images is about to get much easier. OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial
The robots will take the most tedious, most dangerous jobs first, in most things. Trucking is no exception. By: Kyle Stock Original Post: https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/self-driving-trucks-could-replace-90-of-long-haul-jobs Autonomous
By: Eric W. Dolan Original Post: https://www.psypost.org/2022/02/exposure-to-automation-boosts-support-for-the-radical-right-study-finds-62650 People who are more vulnerable to having their jobs replaced by automation tend to be more supportive of radical
Self-checkout, self-service, autonomous stores, DIY: The retail world is prepping for a future with fewer human workers and more technology involved in selling us stuff.
The infrastructure bill is a good start, but the U.S. must go much further in “domestic renewal” to truly compete with China. By: Scott Singer and Ben Silvian
By: WILL KNIGHT Original post can be found at: https://www.wired.com/story/rent-robot-worker-less-paying-human/ POLAR MANUFACTURING has been making metal hinges, locks, and brackets in south Chicago for more than
By: Valerias Bangert. Original article appeared in Venture Beat: https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/08/ai-is-quietly-eating-up-the-worlds-workforce-with-job-automation/ The debate around whether AI will automate jobs away is heating up. AI critics claim that these
By Eric James Beyer Original article: https://interestingengineering.com/ai-mimicking-the-brain-on-its-own In 2019, The MIT Press Reader published a pair of interviews with Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker, two of the world’s
By Frank Holland Original article: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/08/walmart-is-using-fully-driverless-trucks-to-ramp-up-its-online-grocery-business.html KEY POINTS Walmart and Silicon Valley start-up Gatik said that, since August, they’ve operated two autonomous box trucks, without
by Seth G. Benzell and Victor Yifan Ye Despite clear economic benefits of new digital technologies, slow median wage growth has led many to worry
By: MATT O’BRIEN and PAUL WISEMAN. Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking
Better technology and the need to pay higher wages to humans have produced a surge in sales of robots to big companies all across America.
As robotic technology evolves quickly to perform many tasks people can do – the labor market will feel its full effect. This is why UBI
Companies see automation and other labor-saving steps as a way to emerge from the health crisis with a permanently smaller workforce. UBI is now an
The need for social distancing led restaurants and grocery stores to seek technological help. That may improve productivity, but could also cost jobs. By: Ben
Many Americans will receive their first e-commerce delivery by drone as more drones take flight. Changes inside and outside the warehouse will be needed By:
The data trust could, for a fee, give controlled access to our data. Those fees would be collected and distributed to the citizens as dividends,
Worker displacement due to automation is not new and has been around since the Industrial Revolution. What’s matters now is what we do about it?
Is more automation technology enough to improve working conditions or will it just displace more workers even faster? By: J. Fingas @jonfingas Amazon is once
Logistics automation companies say demand has grown during the pandemic as companies cope with big swings in volume and a tight hiring market By: Jennifer Smith
Greater automation helped U.S. companies navigate the unprecedented disruption of the pandemic but at what price to workers. By: David J. Lynch Greater productivity is
After pandemic ‘this will be a different economy’, says Fed’s Powell By: Christopher Rugaber Still, Powell said many Americans who are out of work will struggle
While the COVID-19 pandemic will be remembered for many things, it may mark the official beginning of the age of automation. By: ANDRES OPPENHEIMER The
By Catherine Clifford Artificial intelligence will create so much wealth that every adult in the United States could be paid $13,500 per year from its windfall
Some jobs will disappear and others will emerge as the world faces a dual disruption The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2020 comes at a
Half of all work tasks will be handled by machines by 2025 in a shift likely to worsen inequality, a World Economic Forum report has
The pandemic accelerates the adoption of automation across industries including the food services businesses. The impact on workers is irreversible. By Greg Nichols. A burger-flipping robot
Caterpillar’s automation strategy was not born during the COVID-19 era but the global pandemic is accelerating its rollout. By: Rajesh Kumar Singh. Question: How can
The COVID-19 pandemic has had massive economic impacts in the United States, and one of the problems many companies have been facing as a result
Owning The Robots By: NATHAN GARDELS Well before the COVID crisis, it was clear that digital capitalism was divorcing income and employment from productivity growth
White Castle becomes the first fast food chain to test out the robot fry cook, Flippy, from Miso Robotics By Jonathan Shieber The next
Microsoft Is Switching Out MSN’s Contract Journalists for AI By Alyse Stanley Dozens of contract journalists at Microsoft’s MSN and Microsoft News organizations are
MIT economist Daron Acemoglu’s new research puts a number on the job costs of automation. Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office This is part 1
PUBLISHED MON, MAR 2 20208:57 AM EST UPDATED WED, MAR 11 202010:35 AM EDT Rebecca Fannin, special to CNBC.com Marvin Sepe, senior vice president
Almost half of company bosses in 45 countries are speeding up plans to automate their businesses as workers are forced to stay at home during
In a test kitchen in a corner building in downtown Pasadena, Flippy the robot grabbed a fryer basket full of chicken fingers, plunged it into
In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they’re making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous On conference stages and
Is this the future grocery shoppers want? Jeff Bezos sure hopes so. The first ever Amazon Go Grocery — which opens today at 610 E Pike Street
Garry Kasparov is perhaps the greatest chess player in history. For almost two decades after becoming world champion in 1985, he dominated the game with
Far from providing flexible jobs for complex modern lives, gig economy companies, such as Uber and Deliveroo, increasingly trap workers in a precarious existence where they need to
There are two general philosophical camps when considering the automated future: those who believe it will be a time where massive numbers of jobs eliminated
This time a decade ago, there was no such thing as an iPad. There were no food delivery meal kits. You didn’t speak to a
The Vanishing Executive Assistant Executive assistants once ran the office. Increasingly, the office runs without them. The decline of what has been a solid career
As artificial intelligence and automation multiply, so do dystopian predictions that millions of employees will become redundant, their tasks performed more reliably and cheaply by
There’s no doubt that automation is going to have a massive impact on employment over the coming decades. Whether you think it’s going to result in
The next Industrial Revolution is upon us, and scientists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers are warning of an imminent paradigm shift in the future of work. In
Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to open Amazon Go supermarkets and pop-up stores, an expansion of the company’s cashierless ambitions that includes the possibility of licensing
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 The following post is the second in a two-part series on the impact of robots on the workplace and the labor
Although the U.S. is on a record streak for job-creation, many Americans still feel like they can’t get ahead — it’s not their imagination. The
Research shows that automation trends may be widening the racial wealth gap. This article reveals possible interventions that may help African American workers prepare for
Wages are flatlining because companies are scrapping swathes of mid-tier positions – replacing them with algorithms and cheap offshore labour, according to a new report. White-collar
The man who at once epitomizes the hottest new growth area in tech and the burgeoning hopes for entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe twirls a marker
When machines start picking off all the easy work for themselves, many white-collar jobs are going to get a lot harder. About five years ago,
KEY POINTS: • Panera Bread loses close to 100% of its workers every year. • For fast-food chains employee turnover runs as high as 130%
In this series Luke explores the Eight Modern Giants introduced by Economist Guy Standing in his recent report Basic Income as Common Dividends. Here we
The study, released Tuesday, shows technological advancements affect the genders nearly evenly. That finding upends the notion that automation hits predominantly male manufacturing workers the hardest.
Many people worry that quantum computers will be able to crack certain codes used to send secure messages. The codes in question encrypt data using
This week’s nightmare is the arrival of Boris Johnson; the autumn brings the Brexit watershed. Soon after, the 2020 US election takes shape, compounding the
“Work is the best remedy for any shock,” wrote Arthur C. Clarke in his classic novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Today, we’re living in a culture
If you’re an optimist about the robotic future, you likely hear talk that we’re all going to lose our jobs or suffer a big pay
Advancing technology and automation are likely to hit rural areas and the middle class hardest, according to a new report by McKinsey. The report, entitled
Robots could take over 20 million manufacturing jobs around the world by 2030, economists claimed Wednesday. According to a new study from Oxford Economics, within
In this very lengthy and incredibly thought-provoking think-piece, Vi Hart, former researcher at YC Research and current researcher at Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, dives
Originally published June 3rd. A little more than a year ago, self-driving software company Aptiv and Lyft launched a pilot project to test a robotaxi
The world is changing at lightning speed. Digitalisation, globalisation and demographic changes are having a profound impact on our lives, on our cultures, on our
Article originally published May 20, 2019. Pier 400 in Los Angeles is North America’s largest shipping terminal. More than 1,700 trucks pass through, on average
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders. The
More Americans are working than ever before, but a growing number of them aren’t 9-to-5 employees, nor skilled freelancers who negotiate their compensation. Between the
Robert Schiller is one of the most well-known economists in the world. In the past, he has made bold predictions about the economy. He has
Walmart this morning unveiled a new “store of the future” and test grounds for emerging technologies, including AI-enabled cameras and interactive displays. The store, a
The robots are coming, and they’re bearing pizzas – or soon will be. In a pilot program that could begin this summer, FedEx has teamed
• Amazon employs a system that not only tracks warehouse workers’ productivity but also can automatically generate the paperwork to fire them for failing to
VIEW THE VIDEO HERE Almost half of all jobs could be wiped out or radically altered in the next two decades due to automation, the
Tesla has imbued its cars with the hardware necessary to become fully self-driving. Now, it wants to make it so Tesla owners can loan out
• More store closings have been announced already this year than in all of 2018, according to new research. • A report from Coresight Research
A drumbeat of studies has pushed back hard against concern over the accelerated automation of factories and other businesses, predicting that — just as industrial
Walmart is going all-in on robots. In a statement released on its blog on Tuesday, the retail giant said it was unleashing a number of
Robert Schiller is one of the most well-known economists in the world. In the past, he has made bold predictions about the economy. He has
In his first major speech since leaving office, former President Barack Obama endorsed the idea of providing a universal basic income. Speaking at the Nelson
Andy Stern spent his career organizing service workers, fighting for higher wages and improving working conditions as head of the Service Employees International Union. He
Universal or Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) is not a new idea. In fact, it is a concept that goes back hundreds of years. From Thomas
Emerging technologies like industrial robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are advancing at a rapid pace, but there has been little attention to their impact
In his first major speech since leaving office, former President Barack Obama endorsed the idea of providing a universal basic income. Speaking at the Nelson
