Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

What Do AI and Automation Changes Mean for Your Job?

What Do AI and Automation Changes Mean for Your Job?

MIT AI and the Work of the Future Congress AI and computer technology in general is certain to have a huge impact on the future of work, and rather than replacing jobs, technology is much more likely to change them. But the big concern is not the quantity of jobs, but rather the quality of the jobs in the future, particularly for less educated workers.

That was the big message from MIT’s AI and the Work of the Future Congress held a couple of weeks ago. Most participants seemed more upbeat about the possibilities than they were a few years […]

Work is a fundamental part of being human. Robots won’t stop us doing it

Work is a fundamental part of being human. Robots won’t stop us doing it

Hardly a week goes by without a report announcing the end of work as we know it.

In 2013, Oxford University academics Carl Frey and Michael Osborne were the first to capture this anxiety in a paper titled: “The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?” .

They concluded 47% of US jobs were threatened by automation. Since then, Frey has taken multiple opportunities to repeat his predictions of major labour market disruptions due to automation.In the face of threats to employment, some progressive thinkers advocate jettisoning our work ethic and building a world without work .If machines can […]

Column: It’s time to refocus students and workforce on technology

Column: It's time to refocus students and workforce on technology

Geoff Duncan Packages delivered by drones. Medical procedures performed by robots. Students taking online courses from teachers who are multiple time zones away. Self-driving trucks able to zip through traffic. Talking to Siri, Alexa and a host of other smart devices to provide intelligent information and guidance.

In today’s high-tech world, these ever-advancing conveniences of technology are becoming common-place in the everyday life of Georgians and across the globe.

But we could soon hit a wall very quickly in their development as job growth in the tech sector is so large that it is outpacing a supply of workers. Georgia is […]

Rick Haglund: Research shows trade, not automation, is killing manufacturing jobs

Rick Haglund: Research shows trade, not automation, is killing manufacturing jobs

Manufacturers show their products on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, July 15, 2019, at the Made in America Product Showcase. | Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead, Flickr More than 5 million manufacturing jobs — almost 300,000 of them in Michigan — have been lost since the most recent employment peak in 1998.

Many economists have attributed the huge loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs mostly to booming productivity, enabled by the increasing use of robots and other automated processes in factories.

But Susan Houseman, vice president and director of research at the Kalamazoo-based W.E. Upjohn Institute for […]

Tesla boss Elon Musk backs a ‘basic income‘ for everyone

Tesla boss Elon Musk backs a ‘basic income‘ for everyone because robots will take away our jobs leaving us without any ‘meaning‘ in our lives

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has doubled down on his support of a universal basic income as a possible solution for unemployment caused by the rise of machines equipped with artificial intelligence taking over the workforce.

A universal basic income would give a standard amount of money to every citizen to cover basic expenses like food and living costs each month.At the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday, Musk told a crowd that universal basic income […]

Tesla boss Elon Musk backs a ‘basic income‘ for everyone

Tesla boss Elon Musk backs a ‘basic income‘ for everyone because robots will take away our jobs leaving us without any ‘meaning‘ in our lives

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has doubled down on his support of a universal basic income as a possible solution for unemployment caused by the rise of machines equipped with artificial intelligence taking over the workforce.

A universal basic income would give a standard amount of money to every citizen to cover basic expenses like food and living costs each month.At the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday, Musk told a crowd that universal basic income […]

Artificial intelligence will affect Utah more than other states, new study says

Artificial intelligence will affect Utah more than other states, new study says

Seth Wenig, Associated Press In this file photo from May 2, 2019, Cadet Cheyenne Quilter works with a virtual reality character named “Ellie” at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts of data and making predictions to guide care or help patients. SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s economy could be more affected by artificial intelligence than other states, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.

The study predicted that Salt Lake and […]

Why automation is something to worry about

Why automation is something to worry about

The viewpoint of automation has always been recipient to serious worries regarding employments, from the beginning of the 19th century’s Luddite movement, to the publishings, put forward generations later of renowned economists such as Wassily Leontief and John Maynard Keynes. Both John Maynard Keynes and Wassily Leontief were unsure if there would be an optimum number of jobs for employees to do. So many people have started sharing the same view, seeing the approaching era of digital automation.

The labor market is being affected by the digital technologies of the present day. In response to this phenomenon, three queries are […]

The US cities where robots are impacting jobs the most

The US cities where robots are impacting jobs the most

The use of robots in U.S. workplaces has more than doubled since the Great Recession, but the impact has hit certain areas of the country — and segments of workers — more than others.

A recent report from The Century Foundation found Midwestern states such as Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin saw the sharpest growth in robots being used in the workplace from 2009 to 2017, and these areas now have the highest levels of "robot intensity" in the country.

Robot intensity refers to the number of industrial robots per 1,000 human workers. The higher the number, the more robots […]

We would rather lose our jobs to robots than humans, a study shows

We would rather lose our jobs to robots than humans, a study shows

Losing your job to a human stings more than getting replaced by a robot, research found. The question has a surprising psychological factor for workers now and in the future.

Losing a job can be stressful and demoralizing. Seeing your role replaced by automation is an additional stressor that more workers will have to contend with and worry about in the future.

Robots are already replacing people in some jobs. Apps take orders in chain restaurants, and some supermarkets use self-checkout machines to replace checkers. This is the new reality. The Brookings Institution predicts that 36 million Americans face a “high […]