As productivity rises with automation, a UBI tied to GDP per capita could help distribute the dividends equitably.
KERICHO, Kenya — Kenyan tea pickers are destroying machines brought in to replace them during violent protests that highlight the challenge faced by workers as more agribusiness companies rely on automation to cut costs.
By: Joann Muller Amazon is rolling out an army of robots that could soon select and sort the majority of the 13 million packages it
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
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: 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: 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
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 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
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.
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
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
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
The words in this video essay were authored by writer and UBI advocate Scott Santens. Video by Build The Floor. _____ To view original video
“Without UBI, I believe many feel the very capitalist system itself is in crisis,” says Govorner Lee Jae-myung. By William Gallo, Lee Juhyun SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA –
The Robots Are Coming for Phil in Accounting. By Helen Lyons The robots are coming. Not to kill you with lasers, or beat you in
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
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
Andrew Yang’s nonprofit is partnering with the $1K Project to bring $1,000 direct monthly payments to struggling US families By: Lauren Frias KEY TAKE-AWAYS Andrew
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
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
You can now listen to Crisis 2038 for free on SoundCloud! Fall 2038. A crisis is brewing as increasingly intelligent AIs and robots replace more
Imagine, for a moment, that the robots have won. The year is 2049—the same year researchers once pegged as the one in which A.I. would
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
Andrew Yang has managed to stay in the Texas Hold’em tournament past the first bubble. Unlike other outsiders, he hasn’t been voted off the island
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
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
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
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
This week, former U.S. President Barack Obama tentatively endorsed the idea of a universal basic income. The fortune of another American, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,
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
