Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Man vs Machine: Just How Soon Will Automation Reshape The Global Workforce?

Man vs Machine: Just How Soon Will Automation Reshape The Global Workforce?

MODERN computers can learn, they can listen, they can understand, and more importantly, they can create— a task they are performing at an extraordinary rate unseen by any human to date. Rather than relying mostly on physical labor and human presence to drive production, many industries are implementing technology that can perform the work of humans at lower costs and with less effort.

Defined as “the information processing in physical systems”, intelligence is arguably humanity’s most valuable resource. It is what drives the creation of new ideas and stimulates the growth of any successful economy. With that in mind, it […]

Taxing Robots Is a Terrible Idea

Taxing Robots Is a Terrible Idea

Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is much smarter—and richer!—than I will ever be, but even smart, rich men can have bad ideas.

During a February interview with the digital news outlet Quartz, Gates suggested that robots should be taxed as a way to compensate factory workers displaced by automation. Since factory workers pay Social Security and income taxes, he reasoned, if those workers are replaced by robots, then the robots should be similarly taxed to restore the lost government revenue. Gates worried that the rate at which factories are implementing robotics and automation is outpacing the economy’s ability to reallocate […]

Trump Can’t Bring Back All Those Jobs From China. Here’s What He Can Do

Trump Can't Bring Back All Those Jobs From China. Here's What He Can Do

This picture taken on Dec. 14, 2016, at a news stand in Shanghai shows an advertisement for a magazine featuring Donald Trump, who would soon take office as president, on the cover. Donald Trump’s rhetoric on China and trade has been blunt, to say the least.

"We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country — and that’s what they’re doing," he said at a May 2016 campaign rally . "It’s the greatest theft in the history of the world."

His tone was a bit more measured leading up to his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping , though the […]

Have No Fear, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Has A Plan For When The Robots Take Our Jobs

Have No Fear, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Has A Plan For When The Robots Take Our Jobs

If you ask experts robots are going to be claiming a lot of human jobs in the future. However, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau believes he has a plan to deal with this eventuality, in a way that doesn’t leave hordes of people lining up at the unemployment office. According to guys like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking, everything from factories to taxis to even some office jobs will eventually be fully automated, putting a lot of people out of business. Each has their own idea of a solution — Bill gates even suggested taxing factory robots […]

How Much Will Artificial Intelligence Affects Employment Rates?

How Much Will Artificial Intelligence Affects Employment Rates?

ai 912×463 The rise in artificial intelligence is here and has brought with it many advantages. However, there are also disadvantages that come with it. One of those is in people that are finding it difficult to hang on to their current roles and are being pushed out by more effective machines. The threat that automation will steal jobs is a worldwide issue that’s affecting millions of people already, and it’s not over yet.

According to the results of a recent study carried out by Accenture, more than 1,000 large companies worldwide that are already using or in the process […]

Justin Trudeau Has a Plan to Save Jobs From Automation

Justin Trudeau Has a Plan to Save Jobs From Automation

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is preparing his country to deal with the challenges new technologies place on the workforce.

The rise of artificial intelligence technologies has made it easier for companies like Google (goog) to automatically identify cats in photos. But as cutting-edge AI technologies amplify automation, people are increasingly worried that powerful software will replace the need for human workers.

Earlier this week, Trudeau addressed the subject of automation and labor on the question-and-answer website Quora and explained some of his ideas to help Canadian citizens keep their jobs in light of rapid technological advances.Trudeau concedes that the “job […]

Will automation take away all our jobs?

Will automation take away all our jobs?

With all the doom and gloom messages about robots taking all our jobs in the future, this article by Economist, David Autor, is a good reality check on this perspective. The good news is, history suggests, we will find new and interesting things to do for work, we just can’t imagine them yet. For job seekers and students the message is clear, continue to build your skill sets and ensure you able to adapt to change, or you might be left behind.

Probably not. But if we want a future where more of those jobs are decent and well-paying, […]

Future of Jobs: The Battle Between Man and Machine

Future of Jobs: The Battle Between Man and Machine

Employees stand next to robots at the Soft Bank Robotics’ stand during the Digital Business fair CEBIT in Hanover, Germany, on March 19, 2017. (Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images) An endless debate continues to rage over whether or not robots are taking our jobs, as advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have made machines smarter and capable of replacing humans in a variety of increasingly complex tasks. But if history tells us anything, the future won’t see a mere replacement of human labor with the rise of the machine.

“If we look at the history of automation and its impact on […]

Don’t worry about the robots, Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets Honda Robot Asimo as he visits Honda Motor Co. headquaters in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday, May 24, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

The robots are coming! No job is safe! We’ve been hearing this refrain for a while now, describing the latest wave of the technological revolution that has transformed economies everywhere. But is there truly nothing a machine can’t do better than a person?

With all that current technology can accomplish, it’s easy for people to assume that robots will be replacing humans in all corners of the workplace. Our latest research for the […]

Justin Trudeau Has a Plan to Save Jobs From Automation

Justin Trudeau Has a Plan to Save Jobs From Automation

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is preparing his country to deal with the challenges new technologies place on the workforce.

The rise of artificial intelligence technologies has made it easier for companies like Google (goog, -0.32%) to automatically identify cats in photos. But as cutting-edge AI technologies amplify automation, people are increasingly worried that powerful software will replace the need for human workers .

Earlier this week, Trudeau addressed the subject of automation and labor on the question-and-answer website Quora and explained some of his ideas to help Canadian citizens keep their jobs in light of rapid technological advances.Trudeau concedes that […]