Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Reports Send Mixed Messages About Staffing Needs of the Future

Reports Send Mixed Messages About Staffing Needs of the Future

To hire or not to hire. That’s the big question for cash-strapped small businesses. Recent data sends out two very differing messages about the staffing needs of the future — one short term, the other more long term. So businesses may have mixed feelings about their plans for that next hire. February 2017 Staffing Trends

Short Term Hiring Expected to be Competitive

A recent report (PDF) reveals the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits increased less than expected for the week ended February 11.Data from the U.S. Department of Labor shows claims for unemployment benefits rose by […]

Cuban Said That the Rise of the Robots and Their Effect on U.S. Jobs Cannot Be Stopped by Trump

Cuban Said That the Rise of the Robots and Their Effect on U.S. Jobs Cannot Be Stopped by Trump

Mark Cuban, a leading tech visionary proclaimed a statement about the progress of artificial intelligence and robotics recently.

Cuban posted a comment on Twitter saying that the cause of unemployment will be automation and all of us need to brace it. Along with his statement, he also attached a link that leads to a composition, which described how robots are taking over in the workplace.

President Donald Trump from the commencement of his term is stressing on the topic of US employment. He has been focusing on the US corporations to generate jobs within their own country and making the immigration […]

If a robot takes your job, should it pay your taxes too?

If a robot takes your job, should it pay your taxes too?

Bill Gates wants to tax robots.

Now, Gates is a fantastically successful businessman. The Microsoft co-founder is worth $85 billion, after all. He’s also a major philanthropist with a keen interest in public policy. But he should be careful about his musings to the media. The world’s richest person can’t just leave live ammo like "Maybe there should be a robot tax" lying around for some opportunistic politician to pick up. Certainly not with Donald Trump as president.

Look, all that has to happen is for America’s cable-news-addict-in-chief to hear someone on Fox & Friends talking about how "Bill Gates said […]

Second Part Artificial Intelligence: The Impact on Employment Automation and Anxiety.

In a later illustration, robotized teller machines (ATMs) may have been relied upon to spell fate for bank employees by assuming control over some of their normal errands, and surely in America their normal number fell. Be that as it may, that decreased the cost of running a bank office, permitting banks to open more branches in light of client request. The quantity of urban bank offices ascended by 43% over a similar period, so the aggregate number of workers expanded. As opposed to wrecking occupations, ATMs changed bank representatives’ work blend, far from routine assignments and towards things […]

Workplace automation favors machine over manpower

Workplace automation favors machine over manpower

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Automated systems are part of our everyday life workforce, from manufacturing to self-checkouts in a supermarket. The implementation of said systems replaces human workforce members, generating worries each time new technologies are introduced.
Recently Amazon introduced its new convenience store “Amazon Go,” which is said to open early this year in Seattle, WA. This store promises to provide shoppers with a simple shopping experience without lines, checkouts or registers, all thanks to machine learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence according to Amazon.As these new technologies are introduced, questions and fears about the future […]

Stop robots from stealing our jobs: Your Say

Stop robots from stealing our jobs: Your Say

Letter to the editor:

Mark Cuban and Bill Gates are correctly predicting that robots will continue to replace human workers.

This trend will not only have negative effects on job security and employment but also decrease tax revenue for federal and state government. It’s time to consider a “robot tax” on each robot that equals the income taxes lost when a human worker is replaced. Jim Swab; Kalispell, Mont. Facebook comments are edited for clarity and grammar: Automation is either going to lead to permanent high unemployment, or we need to shorten the workweek so more people share the same […]

We Need to Prepare for the 5G Jobs Apocalypse

We Need to Prepare for the 5G Jobs Apocalypse

My taxi driver in San Diego had a plan. He was moving to Laredo to get back into long-distance trucking. He’d work hard for 10 years, save a couple of hundred grand, and retire to Mexico. I did the math: that put him around 2028. He might just make it before all the trucking jobs go away .

At Qualcomm last week, Cristiano Amon, president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, extolled the virtues of the upcoming "5G economy," painting a picture of autonomous vehicles, smart cities, and ubiquitous augmented and virtual reality.

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Are Robots Taking Over Our Jobs? Mark Cuban Warns About Machines, AI Leading To Lower Employment

Are Robots Taking Over Our Jobs? Mark Cuban Warns About Machines, AI Leading To Lower Employment

Businessman and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban turned to Twitter to warn about robots’ threat to unemployment.

“Automation is going to cause unemployment and we need to prepare for it,” Cuban said Sunday. The tweet also included a link to warnings about artificial intelligence from tech leaders, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking .

Cuban didn’t elaborate on the subject, but in a recent interview with CNBC he said President Donald Trump and his administration don’t understand technology advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Cuban is a strong critic of Trump and had endorsed his opponent, […]

Manufacturing Support: The Industrial Sector In The Trump Era

Manufacturing Support: The Industrial Sector In The Trump Era

After his inauguration, Donald Trump rode into the White House on a wave of manufacturing support. In a September 2016 debate , Trump claimed that the US was “losing jobs to other countries at a higher rate than ever” as a result of trade deal after trade deal with foreign powers, promising to bring back manufacturing jobs and save the floundering sector. In a June 2016 speech , he used the words of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Abraham Lincoln to cast the manufacturing sector as the lifeblood of the American nation. It was a powerful appeal to his […]

Bill Gates wants Governments to Tax Robots who are taking Human Jobs

Bill Gates wants Governments to Tax Robots who are taking Human Jobs

The world’s richest man and techno-optimist, Bill Gates believes robots who are taking human jobs need to pay their share in taxes. He said that governments should tax companies’ use of robots as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of employment.

In an interview with Quartz ‘ Editor-in-Chief, Kevin Delaney , the Microsoft co-founder, one of the leading players in artificial-intelligence technology, said: If robots are going to take over human jobs, that means fewer people will be working, which in turn means fewer people will be paying taxes.

And […]