Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Jack the Robot: the future of work

Jack the Robot: the future of work

The world of work is changing dramatically.

Now Faith Popcorn has a very interesting job. Faith is a futurist. Faith works full time at predicting future events.
And, faith has predicted that within 20 years, “we will all be working for a number of companies simultaneously, and not for just one large corporation.’’
In other words the bond between employer and employee strengthened through years of working for one organization will disappear. Most workers will become free agents.Then, Saadia Zahidi is head of gender, education, and work system initiative, for the World Economic Forum. In addition to artificial intelligence and robotics, […]

Don’t Hate Robots, They Just Want You To Have A Cooler Job

Don't Hate Robots, They Just Want You To Have A Cooler Job

Collin Anderson Technology is indeed eliminating jobs, but mostly routine tasks that young people spurn. It is also giving people a chance to recycle their working selves into something interesting.

-Analysis-

BUENOS AIRES — What if the proliferation of robots and progress of automation were good for work, rather a generator of unemployment? Could robots boost job motivation and help create healthier, more attractive jobs?Since the economist Jeremy Rifkin published The End of Work in 1995, technology has become the bogeyman of employment. Economists, sociologists and politicians have been predicting a future in which technology destroys jobs , […]

Rage against the machines: is automation a threat to prosperity?

Numerous commentators have raised concerns about the effect of automation on jobs. In 2015, the Bank of England’s chief economist, Andrew Haldane, suggested that as many as one third of jobs in the UK – 15 million – could be lost to automation. Examples could include drivers replaced by autonomous vehicles and administrative staff replaced by intelligent assistants like Amazon’s Alexa. Moreover, where automation in the past affected low-skill jobs, smarter machines and artificial intelligence automation could affect a much broader range of jobs in the future, including many high-paid, high-skilled positions.

Fears about automation have been around ever since […]

Stop Blaming Robots: Automation is Not Killing American Jobs

Stop Blaming Robots: Automation is Not Killing American Jobs

Chinese factory made international headlines two years ago by firing 90 percent of its workers, while simultaneously making 162.5 percent more stuff. How did they do it? Automation.

Since then the mainstream media has worked itself, and many Americans, into a frenzy over “job-stealing” robots. Automation will cause mass unemployment and poverty, they say. Therefore, we should tax the robots , and use the proceeds to fund a universal basic income—presumably administered according to the maxim from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs , or something like that. Even otherwise pro-business, economically literate publications like […]

No job is safe from automation

No job is safe from automation

Accountants and other professionals are not necessarily better insulated against the automation revolution, as suggested by Mr Lee Fook Chiew and Mr Loke Hoe Yeong (Why robots won’t steal accountants’ jobs; June 24).

A large number of such positions have already been eliminated.

Just last year, American retail giant Wal-Mart slashed over 7,000 jobs in its accounting department alone, in favour of computerised back-office programmes.Regardless of how well individuals can adapt their skill sets to remain competitive, there can be only so many higher-tier employment opportunities remaining. This inevitably results in a labour crunch and large-scale displacement.The consultative and advisory roles […]

Bill Gates Forecasts the Future (Again)

Bill Gates Forecasts the Future (Again)

Bill Gates has always been prone to accurately predicting future global trends, providing a window into tomorrow.

Microsoft CEO cum-Technology Adviser. Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Co-Founder of the Giving Pledge. Fortune teller?

Bill Gates recently gave this advice to recent college graduates: “In the early days of Microsoft, I believed that if you could write great code, you could also manage people well or run a marketing team or take on any other task. I was wrong about that. I had to learn to recognize and appreciate people’s different talents. The sooner you can do this, […]

As Men Make Way For Machines, Many A Jobs May Vanish

As Men Make Way For Machines, Many A Jobs May Vanish

The speed with which the idea of a Universal Basic Income is gaining adherents in the West should be a giveaway: a lot of jobs are simply not coming back, and there will be those who are permanently unemployable.

On a May trip to Paris and the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the things that startled me is the virtual extinction of various categories of jobs. Technology could well be the culprit, although I read somewhere that only a single official job classification has explicitly disappeared in the United States in the last 60 years: elevator (lift) operator. But […]

Google Exec Says AI Will Lead To More Jobs, Not Fewer

Google Exec Says AI Will Lead To More Jobs, Not Fewer

Eric Schmidt.OFFICIAL LEWEB PHOTOS/Flickr At this point, it’s no secret that people are starting to be more afraid of automation and artificial intelligence due to the prospect of job loss. However, Alphabet chief executive, Eric Schmidt said that these fears are unfounded. Instead of leading to fewer jobs, AIs and better computers will actually lead to better employment opportunities.

Schmidt made this pronouncement during the Viva Technology conference, which was held in Paris, France, Futurism reports. It was basically an event where industry luminaries and government leaders could attend and give their two-cents regarding the current trajectory of technology and […]

Robocalypse now? Central bankers argue whether automation will kill jobs

Robocalypse now? Central bankers argue whether automation will kill jobs

Manufacturing workers at the Rode Microphones factory in Sydney. The rise of robots has long been a topic for sci-fi best sellers and video games and, as of this week, a threat officially taken seriously by central bankers.

The bankers are not yet ready to buy into dystopian visions in which robots render humans superfluous.

But, at an exclusive gathering at a golf resort near Lisbon, the big minds of monetary policy were seriously discussing the risk that artificial intelligence could eliminate jobs on a scale that would dwarf previous waves of technological change.“There is no question we are in an […]

Bristol: Like it or not, big government may be here to stay

Bristol: Like it or not, big government may be here to stay

After reading recent news reports on job automation I’m wondering whether government itself will eventually become the employer of last resort. Actually that might not be such a bad thing.

We’ve seen what has happened to manufacturing jobs. They’re down from about 18 million to about 12 million over the last 40 or so years. No matter what President Trump says those jobs are not coming back.

Meanwhile, service jobs are up from about 40 million to over 100 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.This much larger part of the workforce includes not just jobs, such as checkout clerk […]