Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

The Jobs Robots Can’t Do (At Least Not Yet)

The Jobs Robots Can’t Do (At Least Not Yet)

In the Age of AI (FRONTLINE)

In the age of artificial intelligence, predicting which jobs will fall to automation is as much about what machines can do as it is about what they can’t.

More than half of all jobs in America — both blue and white-collar — are resistant to automation, according to an acclaimed study published in 2013 by two Oxford University researchers.Co-author Carl Benedikt Frey, who directs Oxford’s Technology and Employment program, broke down three areas where human intelligence still beats artificial intelligence: perception and manipulation, social intelligence; and creativity. Each type has what Frey calls a “bottleneck,” […]

Three ways to solve India’s jobs problem

Three ways to solve India’s jobs problem

Students at a skill development centre run by Maruti Suzuki on the ITI-Meerut campus. Although the data is murky and it is politically difficult to admit, India has a massive and growing challenge educating and creating decent work for her youth. Some 374 million Indians are between 10-24 years old and they constitute a fifth of the world’s young people. They represent extraordinary talent and ambition but face equally extraordinary challenges.

The facts are grim. Half of them drop out before Class X. Nearly a million turn 18 years old every month and start looking for employment. However, jobs are […]

Women’s jobs under threat from AI

Women’s jobs under threat from AI

This file photo shows female workers on a production line at the Garment 10 Company on the outskirts of Hanoi. (AFP Photo) Technological advancements and artificial intelligence (AI) are revolutionising manufacturing for industries around the world. The International Federation of Robotics estimates that by 2020, the worldwide stock of operational industrial robots would have increased to 3,053,000 units, with the capability to help produce cars, electronics and new machinery.

Partial automation is already making meaningful changes in how people work; increasing efficiency and requiring less time to complete a task.

However, the scale and pace of AI in disrupting jobs is […]

Automation brings both prospects and risks to RMG industry in BD

Staff Correspondent: As many as 120 machines are knitting sweaters round the clock in a huge air-conditioned room with a handful of workers inputting instructions and designs into computers.
Thanks to automation, the apparel plant of Softex Sweater Industries at Savar on the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital Dhaka reduced the number of workers to 22 from 700 in the knitting unit.
The plant needs fewer workers as they just sort the items manufactured by the machines, according to the company’s Head of Operations Tahzeeb Ul Gani Shahjee.
“You only need to feed designs and measurements into the machines. […]

Automation and its enemies

Automation and its enemies

The Industrial Revolution made technology the engine of economic growth (Landes 1969, Mokyr 1990). Before 1750, per capita income in the world doubled every 6,000 years. Since then, it has doubled every 50 years (DeLong 1999). This acceleration was in large part the consequence of applying machinery in production, which allowed us to produce more with fewer people (Frey 2019). Seen in this light, the current automation hysteria is hard to understand. Future generations could make an extraordinary leap forward from the Industrial Revolution’s ‘great enrichment’. The industrialisation process itself, however, was a different matter. The Luddites, who rioted […]

ANALYSIS: How to manage working next to a robot

ANALYSIS: How to manage working next to a robot

Should we believe headlines claiming nearly half of all jobs will be lost to robots and artificial intelligence?

We think not, and in a newly released study we explain why.

Headlines trumpeting massive job losses have been in abundance for five or so years.Even The Conversation has had its had its share .Most come from a common source.It is a single study , conducted in 2013 by Oxford University’s Carl Benedict Frey and Michael Osborne .This study lies behind the claim that 47% of jobs in the United States were at “high risk” of automation over the next ten or so […]

Automation brings both prospects and risks to Bangladesh’s apparel industry

Automation brings both prospects and risks to Bangladesh’s apparel industry

Thanks to automation, the apparel plant of Softex Sweater Industries at Savar on the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital Dhaka reduced the number of workers to 22 from 700 in the knitting unit.

The plant needs fewer workers as they just sort the items manufactured by the machines, according to the company’s Head of Operations Tahzeeb Ul Gani Shahjee.

“You only need to feed designs and measurements into the machines. One worker can look after five machines at a time. The machines do the basic knitting while the workers only sort the products,” he told bdnews24.com . Linking, trimming, washing and […]

Your View: Ignore Andrew Yang. Automation is good for our economy

Your View: Ignore Andrew Yang. Automation is good for our economy

Robots weld the bed of a 2018 Ford F-150 truck at the Ford Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan. (Carlos Osorio/AP) The presidential debates have featured several candidates with new proposals to curb the threat automation poses to workers. Andrew Yang has his signature Freedom Dividend, giving $1,000 a month to every American to alleviate technological unemployment.

There’s a catch with all of these solutions, though. The problem they’re meant to solve doesn’t exist. Ignatios Draklellis (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO) The idea that jobs are being automated so quickly that it is displacing workers and causing societal dysfunction has become ubiquitous in […]

The New World of Work | Podbay

The New World of Work | Podbay

How can business leaders can make the new world of work better for people?

We speak with two leaders on the forefront of applying AI techniques such as automation and machine learning in the business world. How can CEOs stay ahead of the curve in training and developing their workforce for using this technology? Since companies are doing the hiring and creating the jobs, what role do they play in talent and development? How should companies think about hiring as work changes? John Donahoe, CEO of ServiceNow, and Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, tackle the tough questions facing companies […]

No, the Robots are Not Going to Take all Our Jobs

No, the Robots are Not Going to Take all Our Jobs

The robots are coming—and according to some experts, they’re here to take our jobs. Artificial intelligence and automation have made our world an increasingly futuristic wonder to behold. However, some “experts” still apparently worry such a future is a dystopian one—where robots, AI and automation will slowly phase out Americans workers, costing tens of millions of jobs in the decade ahead.

It’s not hard to see why these warnings are taken seriously. After all, Amazon is on the verge of opening up “cashierless” stores—grocery stores where customers are free to waltz in, grab their products, and walk out without ever […]