Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Preparing for the Future of Work

Preparing for the Future of Work

Preparing for the Future of Work. Futurists have long envisioned a brighter tomorrow, full of A.I. helpers and automated environments that run on the sound of our voice. Now that we stand on the edge of that reality, it’s time to realize what it requires of us to make this new world work. With immense possibilities on the horizon comes expanding responsibility. Businesses need to act now to transform their IT, workforce and security to stay ahead of the curve.

Recently, Dell Technologies teamed up with Institute for the Future to project into the next decades, and predict how emerging […]

Why We Should Learn To Love The Robot

Why We Should Learn To Love The Robot

Robot vs. human: automation will eradicate some jobs, but it will also create new roles and restructure others. Getty Although the word “robot” didn’t appear until 1920, mankind has long been fascinated by the idea of creating a higher intelligence. Ancient mythology is peppered with references; from the Greek sculptor Pygmalion crafting his ideal woman out of ivory and bringing her to life, to the Jewish legend of Golem, built from clay by a rabbi seeking to protect his community from persecution. However, while we are captivated by robots we also seem to be highly suspicious of them. And […]

Embrace digital or perish: Harsh Goenka

Embrace digital or perish: Harsh Goenka

Automation is changing the workplace everywhere, says Harsh Goenka. RPG Enterprises Chairman Harsh Goenka in an exclusive interview talks to ET about the group’s new policies to transform into a workplace of the new generation. In a conversation with Rica Bhattacharyya, Goenka NSE -16.67 % talks about how the group is preparing to face the digital boom in the world around and how automation is changing the workplace. “Embrace digital or perish,” he warns. According to Goenka there will be lot more jobs for people from humanities and arts rather than from engineering and science. Edited excerpts:

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Experts Forecast Promising Future for Women in Era of AI

An artificial intelligence (AI) startup has used machine learning to scan scientific research and news stories in order to identify prominent scientists without any personal entry on Wikipedia, and found that many of them are women.

Researcher Jessica Wade, a physicist at Imperial College London in the UK, said Wikipedia presents an incredible gender bias, as 82 percent of biographies on its website are about men.

However, with the help of AI, this bias is decreasing and the information of female scientists will gradually be refined.The emerging technology of AI has gradually penetrated into all aspects of people’s lives, and caught […]

What Are Humans Good For? Oxford Researcher Shows How To Future-Proof Jobs In AI Economy

What Are Humans Good For? Oxford Researcher Shows How To Future-Proof Jobs In AI Economy

The recent surge in AI development has a twin effect on the industry — on the one hand it led to deployment of AI-based technology, and on the other it also sparked fear of job losses, due to rising automation. When seen in the Indian context, jobs siphoned off by automation has become an important issue in India’s tech circles. The Indian government led by PM Modi has fully embraced AI but it remains to be seen how it plans to assist the population of India in the age of automation.

Now, machine learning researcher Michael Osborne is looking at […]

Robots May Replace A Lot More Human Jobs By 2022

Robots May Replace A Lot More Human Jobs By 2022

The Why Axis Human Machine Working Hours The rise of AI and automation has implications on productivity, wages, employment, and more as robots start performing more and more jobs once done by humans.

According to a report from the World Economic Forum (WEF), " The Future of Jobs 2018 ," 52 percent of current job tasks will be performed by robots by 2025. The study found that automation could eliminate 75 million jobs by 2022 in sectors such as accounting, assembly plants, customer management centers, and postal services.

But the report also estimates that this "robot revolution" will create a […]

Rest Easy, Sort of: AI Will Create More Jobs Than It Destroys

Rest Easy, Sort of: AI Will Create More Jobs Than It Destroys

Artificial intelligence, robotics and the fourth industrial revolution are setting the stage for a massive, global expansion in job creation, according to a new report released by the World Economic Forum .

Entitled “ The Future of Jobs ”, the report predicts that although the new technology will wipe out 75 million jobs worldwide by 2022, 133 million new jobs will be created in their place. The Swiss organization behind the annual agenda-setting Davos summit claims that on the whole, the robot revolution will by far deliver a net positive contribution to employment. Smooth Sailing or Storms Ahead?

The […]

Autonomous Trucks Still Down the Road

Autonomous Trucks Still Down the Road

Driverless haul trucks rumble over trails at Rio Tinto’s Mine of the Future in Western Australia. Ned Ludd never drove a truck. They didn’t exist in 1779 when, folklore says, he smashed a weaving machine in a “fit of passion.” This the young Englishman did after being beaten by his boss for idleness, or simply being told by his father, also a weaver, to “square his needles”—the accounts of the long-ago event vary. Indeed, Ludd the man may never have existed, but in the next century, textile workers who protested the introduction of job-killing machinery, sabotaging a lot of […]

Technology May Cost Millions of Jobs in South East Asia, Experts Warn

Technology May Cost Millions of Jobs in South East Asia, Experts Warn

JABER ALSABAH WRITES — At the 2018 World Economic Forum in Hanoi from September 11 to 13, experts warned that technological advancements such as automation could result in employment losses for roughly 6.6 million workers.

Automation is the use of machines and technology to make processes run without manpower. For example, automobile assembly lines would require fewer people to build cars.

This prediction is of particular relevance to countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand, where manufacturing relies heavily on millions of flesh and blood workers. According to Phu Huynh of the International Labor Organization, workers most affected by automation would […]

Kettering students learn about automation in Hyundai CRADLE competition

Kettering students learn about automation in Hyundai CRADLE competition

Kettering University students will try to answer the question “How do you create new jobs when white collar jobs have been displaced due to automation?” in a new competition sponsored by the Hyundai Center for Robotic-Augmented Design in Living Experiences (CRADLE).

Kettering’s School of Management is hosting the competition, and students in majors across the University are competing.

“It’s a really cool opportunity for younger generations that are still learning a lot and will grow up in field of automation,” said Emily Kurburski ’20. “It’s understanding how we’re going to learn to adopt it in industries and teach people across different […]