WORKFORCE AUTOMATION
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
Baidu unveils new self-driving taxi in China
By: Zoe Kleinman. See original post here. It says its new model, the Apollo RT6, has the the road
Amazon’s drone delivery service is finally starting
By: Joann Muller. See original post here. Nearly a decade after Amazon began working on drone delivery, customers living in
Welcome to the summer of robots
By: Jennifer A. Kingson See original post here. We’re encountering lots more robots in our daily lives — delivering
Autonomous cargo ship completes first ever transoceanic voyage
By: Anthony Cuthbertson See the original post here. A self-steering ship has completed the world’s first transoceanic voyage of
Autonomous trucks will deliver goods to Dallas Sam’s Club stores
By: Joann Muller See original post here. Autonomous trucks developed by Gatik will soon be delivering paper plates and
Driverless taxis to begin offering ride services in San Francisco
By: Joann Muller. See original post here. General Motors-backed Cruise got the green light from California regulators last week
Robot orders increase 40% in first quarter as employers respond to difficulty finding workers without raising wages
By: Bethany Biron. See original post here. Highlights: Robot orders increased 40% in the first quarter of 2022, as
Move over, Photoshop: OpenAI just revolutionized digital image making
By: JEREMY KAHN Read full original here. The creation and editing of photorealistic digital images is about to get
Robot Trucks Could Replace 500K U.S. Jobs
The robots will take the most tedious, most dangerous jobs first, in most things. Trucking is no exception. By:
Exposure to automation boosts support for the radical right, study finds
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
The Future of Retail: More Self-Service
Self-checkout, self-service, autonomous stores, DIY: The retail world is prepping for a future with fewer human workers and more
Opinion: How Universal Basic Income Can Help the United States Out-Compete China in AI
The infrastructure bill is a good start, but the U.S. must go much further in “domestic renewal” to truly
Now You Can Rent a Robot Worker—for Less Than Paying a Human
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
AI is quietly eating up the world’s workforce with job automation
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
MIT Researchers Just Discovered an AI Mimicking the Brain on Its Own
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
Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business
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
Well-designed UBI can make automation welfare-improving for all US workers regardless of skill or age
by Seth G. Benzell and Victor Yifan Ye Despite clear economic benefits of new digital technologies, slow median wage
Do we need humans for that job? Automation booms after COVID
By: MATT O’BRIEN and PAUL WISEMAN. Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los
Rent-a-robot: Silicon Valley’s new answer to the labor shortage in smaller U.S. factories
Better technology and the need to pay higher wages to humans have produced a surge in sales of robots
Elon Musk just announced Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot, prototype next year, and reemphasized the need for UBI
As robotic technology evolves quickly to perform many tasks people can do – the labor market will feel its
Many Jobs Lost During the Coronavirus Pandemic Just Aren’t Coming Back
Companies see automation and other labor-saving steps as a way to emerge from the health crisis with a permanently
Pandemic Wave of Automation May Be Bad News for Workers
The need for social distancing led restaurants and grocery stores to seek technological help. That may improve productivity, but
Delivery by Drone is on Its Way
Many Americans will receive their first e-commerce delivery by drone as more drones take flight. Changes inside and outside
Opinion: Selling our personal data can create universal basic income
The data trust could, for a fee, give controlled access to our data. Those fees would be collected and
How automation led to stagnant wages and inequality
Worker displacement due to automation is not new and has been around since the Industrial Revolution. What’s matters now
Amazon Hiring More Robots
Is more automation technology enough to improve working conditions or will it just displace more workers even faster? By: