WORKFORCE AUTOMATION

Why use of AI is a major sticking point in the ongoing writers’ strike
By: Jeremy Hsu See original post here. Could AI soon write your favourite Hollywood film or streaming show? That concern

BT to replace 10,000 workers with AI as part of wider cull of up to 55,000 staff in bid to slash costs
By: Kit Heren See original post here. The cost-cutting came as the company reported a 12% drop in annual

DeepMind Founder Says Universal Basic Income Needed for AI Job Losses
By: Pete Syme See original post here. A co-founder of DeepMind, the AI company bought by Google in 2014,

AI could replace 80% of jobs ‘in next few years’: expert
By: Eugenia LOGIURATTO See original post here. Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming

Basic Income and AI-Induced Unemployment
By: Connor Axiotes (Adam Smith Institute) | Nikhil Woodruff (UBI Centre & Policy Engine) | Scott Santens (Humanity Forward)

IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI
International Business Machines Corp expects to pause hiring for roles as roughly 7,800 jobs could be replaced by Artificial Intelligence

The AI boom is built on data, the data comes from the internet, and the internet came from us.
By: Scott Rosenberg See original post here. The AI boom is built on data, the data comes from the internet, and

Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns society to brace for impact of A.I. acceleration
By: Jennifer Elias See original post here. Key points: Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said “every product of every company”

Gerald Huff Fund For Humanity Calls for Development of Universal Basic Income Programs to Mitigate AI’s Potential to Eliminate Jobs
Businesswire: April 18, 2023 SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity (the “Fund”), a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the

Opinion: AI Is About to Decimate Millions of Jobs. It’s Time for Universal Basic Income
By: ANDREW V. KENNEDY See original post here. For the better part of the last 15 years, I’ve worked

AI Is About to Decimate Millions of Jobs. It’s Time for Universal Basic Income | Opinion
by ANDREW V. KENNEDY , ARTIST AND WRITER ON 4/4/23 AT 12:04 PM EDT Originally published: https://www.newsweek.com/ai-about-decimate-millions-jobs-its-time-universal-basic-income-opinion-1792501 For the better

AI systems like ChatGPT could impact 300 million full-time jobs worldwide, with administrative and legal roles some of the most at risk, Goldman Sachs report says
See original post here. Generative artificial intelligence systems could lead to “significant disruption” in the labor market and affect

Companies are already replacing workers with Chat GPT
See original post here. In the 10 or so days since its grand entrance, ChatGPT has been everywhere: littering Twitter feeds,

GPT-4 has arrived. It will blow ChatGPT out of the water.
See original post here. The artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI on Tuesday launched the newest version of its language

AI-powered “robot” lawyer won’t argue in court after jail threats
See original post here. A “robot” lawyer powered by artificial intelligence was set to be the first of its

Will generative AI finally lead to universal basic income?
By: Harini Calamur See original post here. ChatGPT has been in the news for the last few months. It

US experts warn AI likely to kill off jobs – and widen wealth inequality
By: Steven Greenhouse See original post here. ChatGPT is just the latest technology to fuel worries that it will

ChatGPT Passes Google Coding Interview for Level 3 Engineer With $183K Salary
By: Emily Dreibelbis See original post here. Google fed coding interview questions to ChatGPT and, based off the AI’s answers, determined

ChatGPT is just the beginning: Artificial intelligence is ready to transform the world
By: KIKO LLANERA, SANDREA RIZZI, JOSÉ A. ÁLVAREZ See original post here. If you ask the ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) system

ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor
By: Kalhan Rosenblatt New research conducted by a professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School found that the artificial intelligence-driven chatbot

Why ChatGPT will only become stronger with GPT-4
By: LESLIE D’MONTE Hardly a day goes by without a mention of ChatGPT, the wunderkind artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot

Would it really be so bad if AI took our jobs?
By: Serena Smith In a world where AI is rapidly advancing, the question of whether it would be a

Robots Are Replacing Workers Lost in the Pandemic. They’re Here to Stay.
By: Daren Fonda Midway through a mission to deliver food at George Mason University in Virginia, the little white

DeepMind’s CEO Helped Take AI Mainstream. Now He’s Urging Caution
By: BILLY PERRIGO Demis Hassabis stands halfway up a spiral staircase, surveying the cathedral he built. Behind him, light

Opinion: ChatGPT must lead to basic income for everyone and an end to bullshit jobs
By: Javed Anwer In the late 1920s, times were hard and the Great Recession shadowed everything. There was a

Opinion: Governments will increasingly be under pressure to help those left behind by ‘globotics’
By: Nouriel Roubini Inflation rose sharply throughout 2022 across both advanced economies and emerging markets. Structural trends suggest that

AI is finally good at stuff. Now what?
By Rebecca Heilweil See original post here. A few weeks ago, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick told his MBA students to

Artists stage mass protest against AI-generated artwork on ArtStation
By: BENJ EDWARDS On Tuesday, members of the online community ArtStation began widely protesting AI-generated artwork by placing “No

Amazon can’t get enough human workers — so here come the robots
By: Joann Muller Amazon is rolling out an army of robots that could soon select and sort the majority

Nouriel Roubini on a ‘variant of another Great Depression’ and the inevitable UBI solution
By: WILL DANIEL Interviewing Nouriel Roubini as a young journalist can be intimidating, to say the least. The veteran

It’s past time to prepare for a future where the workforce has as many robots as people
By: The Editorial Board There’s a scene in the movie I, Robot where a robot-hating police officer, played by

The first political party in Denmark to have its platform determined by AI includes a large UBI
See original post here. Universal basic income that’s double the average wage? Legislating in favor of human-algorithmic coexistence? These