WORKFORCE AUTOMATION
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:
Warehouses Look to Robots to Fill Labor Gaps, Speed Deliveries
Logistics automation companies say demand has grown during the pandemic as companies cope with big swings in volume and
Hiring troubles prompt some employers to eye automation and machines
Greater automation helped U.S. companies navigate the unprecedented disruption of the pandemic but at what price to workers. By:
Powell warns that workers will struggle to find jobs in new economy with more automation
After pandemic ‘this will be a different economy’, says Fed’s Powell By: Christopher Rugaber Still, Powell said many Americans who
Robot sales hit a new record during the pandemic year. This will change the world
While the COVID-19 pandemic will be remembered for many things, it may mark the official beginning of the age
OpenAI’s Sam Altman: Artificial Intelligence can generate enough wealth to pay each adult $13,500 a year
By Catherine Clifford Artificial intelligence will create so much wealth that every adult in the United States could be paid
The workforce is automating faster than expected, displacing 85 million jobs in the next five years
Some jobs will disappear and others will emerge as the world faces a dual disruption The World Economic Forum’s Future
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 forecast.
Half of all work tasks will be handled by machines by 2025 in a shift likely to worsen inequality,
Flippy the burger-flipping robot goes on sale
The pandemic accelerates the adoption of automation across industries including the food services businesses. The impact on workers is
Caterpillar bets on self-driving machines impervious to pandemics
Caterpillar’s automation strategy was not born during the COVID-19 era but the global pandemic is accelerating its rollout. By:
Pandemic-fueled automation is gobbling up jobs that will never return
The COVID-19 pandemic has had massive economic impacts in the United States, and one of the problems many companies
As Big Tech’s profits soar in the pandemic, it’s time to discuss sharing the digital wealth
Owning The Robots By: NATHAN GARDELS Well before the COVID crisis, it was clear that digital capitalism was divorcing
White Castle becomes first fast food chain to hire Flippy the robot burger flipper
White Castle becomes the first fast food chain to test out the robot fry cook, Flippy, from Miso Robotics