Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Many are pessimistic about the consequences of AI

Many are pessimistic about the consequences of AI

Charles Modeas, EU Research Commissioner claims that the development of AI and thinking machines pose a threat to our existence risk confusing science with science fiction. Negative views of AI development predominate In a speech to the European Parliament’s Science and Technology Options Assessment Group Modeas said:“If you do any research on artificial intelligence these days, the results are astonishingly pessimistic. Nine articles out of ten on AI are negative. Not just negative. Alarmist and panicked, sometimes even hysterical. For me, a techno-optimist, it’s shocking. And very disappointing." Commissioner Modeas is betting that AI research will be a positive […]

The robots are coming, the robots are coming!

The robots are coming, the robots are coming!

We’re hatching an antibiotics apocalypse because we love cheap chicken Malaysian laws don’t do enough to protect our personal data Stephen Hawking, everyone’s favourite intellectual (they made a movie about him!), has said that right now is perhaps “the most dangerous moment in the development of humanity” thanks to automation.

Yeah, lots of people have cried doom but when it’s Stephen Hawking, you tend to listen.

And what makes this potentially the most dangerous moment? Is it AI run amok? Out of control climate change? An asteroid on a collision course with Earth?Nope, it’s employment.“The automation of factories has already decimated […]

Tax on robots that take jobs would be ‘stupid’: manufacturers

Tax on robots that take jobs would be 'stupid': manufacturers

The Manufacturer’s Network boss Dieter Adam says a tax on robotic arms in factories would be "stupid". The new Government is monitoring how machines will affect jobs in the future, but has not considered a "robot tax".

Announcing the Government’s tax working group this week, Finance Minister Grant Robertson said the nature of work was changing and so too could the tax system.

Auckland University head of commercial law Alex Sims said robots, autonomous systems and artificial intelligence would displace skilled workers from jobs forever, in a similar way to cars replacing horses for transport. Auckland University head of commercial law […]

Who will replace the robots

Who will replace the robots

or Man — it sounds proudly. Recently, a new round of conversations about zambelich wheelchairs and other potential achievements of artificial intelligence again put one of the classic questions of humanity: who’ll be left on the side of the monorail the next technological revolution? Some studies claim that artificial intelligence will soon lead to a surge in unemployment comparable to the great depression. Today we will talk about who computers will be able to replace in the near future, and who can without fear and even with a certain complacency to expect the arrival of our silicon overlords. In […]

Every one automation will create 10 jobs: Prof S Sadagopan

Every one automation will create 10 jobs: Prof S Sadagopan

BENGALURU: The much-hyped new age technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Analytics are neither new nor will they take away jobs, as has been feared. These concepts have existed in the past too. The Indian industry is over-glorifying machines, said Prof S Sadagopan, Director (President) of IIIT-Bangalore. He was addressing the gathering at the Digital Innovation Conclave hosted by IFIM institution here on Friday.

Speaking about the future of jobs and the expansion of automation, Sadagopan said that automation is not the end of the road for human employment. The automation threat is real but there is nothing to worry about […]

Meet your new cobot: is a machine coming for your job?

Meet your new cobot: is a machine coming for your job?

John Harris Next to the M56, on the outskirts of Manchester, the future has landed. A cluster of huge distribution centres sits at the heart of Airport City , a new development part-funded by the Beijing Construction Engineering Group (two years ago, it was visited by president Xi Jinping of China). Among the biggest buildings is one of Amazon’s self-styled “fulfilment centres”. Known within the company as MAN1, it opened in September last year, but everything inside, from the chairs to the wall-mounted screens, looks as if it has just come out of a box. Deeper within the centre, […]

Humanities and the Rise of Robots

Humanities and the Rise of Robots

The threat that recent advances in job automation , machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) represent for human workers is becoming more and more relevant in the economic and social debate.

CEOs like John Cryan of Deutsche Bank clearly state that robots can replace thousands of workers. In two different interviews, Cryan said that “in our banks, we have people behaving like robots doing mechanical things. Tomorrow we’re going to have robots behaving like people” and that “we’re too manual, which can make you error-prone and it makes you inefficient. There’s a lot of machine learning and mechanisation that we […]

Let’s not overlook new source of living-wage jobs for our region

Let’s not overlook new source of living-wage jobs for our region

Linda Jorgenson Like most of rural America, the last three decades have not been particularly prosperous ones for Ashland and Bayfield counties. In 2017, both counties still struggle to replace “living wage” jobs like those we lost in the paper and wood products industries in the 1990s. With some exceptions, retail, human services, health care, agriculture and the tourism hospitality sectors have not been able to compensate at that $20-30/hour manufacturing level. The median wage in Ashland County is $19/hour and in Bayfield County it is $22/hour, meaning half the families earn less than this amount and half earn […]

Every one automation will create 10 jobs: Sadagopan

Every one automation will create 10 jobs: Sadagopan

BENGALURU: The much hyped new age technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Analytics are neither new nor will they take away jobs, as has been feared. These concepts have existed in the past too. The Indian industry is over-glorifying machines, said Prof S Sadagopan, Director (President) of IIIT-Bangalore. He was addressing the gathering at the Digital Innovation Conclave hosted by IFIM institution here on Friday.

Speaking about the future of jobs and the expansion of automation, Sadagopan said that automation is not the end of the road for human employment. The automation threat is real but there is nothing to worry […]

Who will replace the robots

Who will replace the robots

or Man — it sounds proudly. Recently, a new round of conversations about zambelich wheelchairs and other potential achievements of artificial intelligence again put one of the classic questions of humanity: who’ll be left on the side of the monorail the next technological revolution? Some studies claim that artificial intelligence will soon lead to a surge in unemployment comparable to the great depression. Today we will talk about who computers will be able to replace in the near future, and who can without fear and even with a certain complacency to expect the arrival of our silicon overlords. In […]