WORKFORCE AUTOMATION
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Amazon Hiring More Robots
Is more automation technology enough to improve working conditions or will it just displace more workers even faster? By:
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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
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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:
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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
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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