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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Standing is a professorial research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and a co-founder of the Basic Income
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
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
