Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

When robots and AI come, what jobs will be left?

When robots and AI come, what jobs will be left?

Experts are divided about the jobs that will be left for humans once artificial intelligence, robotics and automation are fully deployed. If you’re prone to fretting about robots eating your job, or the jobs of your kids, get over it.

We will eventually become indistinguishable from robots, says Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor of robotics at Osaka University. Ishiguro is a pioneer builder of human-like androids and had a cameo role in the 2009 Bruce Willis film Surrogates , in which people lived their lives through remote‑controlled surrogates from the safety of their own homes.

In about 100 years, Ishiguro says, only […]

Why is Gartner spewing such irresponsible and unsubstantiated data about “robobosses”?

Why is Gartner spewing such irresponsible and unsubstantiated data about “robobosses”?

Clients are being subjected to such a load of nonsense about the impending impact of robotics and cognitive computing on enterprise jobs, many are literally terrified. Conversing with the “head of automation” for a F500 organization today, is akin to meeting a Secret Service agent in a clandestine alleyway. These people do actually exist, but most have to conduct their work under a veil of secrecy, due to the level of discomfort and panic our robo-commentators are making in the presses.

Remember the panic about jobs getting shipped offshore? Well, that is child’s play compared to the emerging tumult of […]

Automation won’t kill jobs, it will kill tasks: HCL Tech CEO Anant Gupta

Automation won’t kill jobs, it will kill tasks: HCL Tech CEO Anant Gupta

HCLT Tech CEO said: We have overhauled hiring to absorb the impact of automation. At a time when there is fear that increasing automation will lead to layoffs in the IT sector, HCL Technologies CEO Anant Gupta has said, “Automation won’t kill jobs, it will kill tasks.” “We have overhauled hiring to absorb the impact of automation. We have replaced mass hiring with just-in-time hiring,” Anant Gupta said. It is widely believed that technology and automation will increasingly to eat up jobs in sectors such as IT.

Labour Bureau recently surveyed eight sectors and out of them, information technology and […]

Indian industry pushes for advanced robotics, but the question of jobs remains

Indian industry pushes for advanced robotics, but the question of jobs remains

A robot stacking solar panels in a factory in California. The media may focus on humanoid robots, but it is advanced robots that mimic human behaviour that get the job done, the manufacturing industry says. Indian companies feel that advanced robotics is one way forward for the government’s signature Make in India campaign, a survey has found.

The survey, by industry lobby group Ficci and Tata Strategic Management Group, says that it is crucial to adopt futuristic manufacturing trends such as greater use of advanced robotics.

This could also help Indian industry leapfrog past China, which is at least 8-10 years […]

Automation will not kill but create more jobs; robots will generate new work for humans: Anant Gupta, HCL Tech CEO

Automation will not kill but create more jobs; robots will generate new work for humans: Anant Gupta, HCL Tech CEO

There is a way, says Gupta, "which is the pro-human way. We cannot jump in blindly. Automation is a pragmatic journey." NEW DELHI: Automation is the new watchword in the Indian IT sector and employees should start looking at it beyond the hype and apprehension, HCL Tech BSE 1.81 % CEO Anant Gupta wrote in his blog.

"Automation is no longer an option in the 21st century enterprise. Across industries, it is already driving efficiency, productivity, agility, adaptability and optimization… there is growing apprehension about automation devouring jobs. The Industrial Revolution too was met with technological unemployment as a temporary […]

“Silicon Collar” – a realistic view of automation eliminating jobs

“Silicon Collar” – a realistic view of automation eliminating jobs

Editor’s note: The buzz about robots and automation eliminating humans’ jobs is like a squeaking hinge, getting louder and causing more friction almost daily. Released this month, “Silicon Collar,” Vinnie Mirchandani’s fourth book about technology and innovation, is a must-read for employers making decisions about automation as well as for employees who fear their job will be eliminated by technology. Whatever your opinion is about technology and jobs, I believe reading this book will enhance or change your opinion.

I’ve read Vinnie’s three earlier books about technology and innovation, so I felt sure there would be important insights […]

Silicon Collar excerpt The Sum of All Fears

Silicon Collar excerpt The Sum of All Fears

My new book, Silicon Collar , which will be released in Kindle format on Friday, is on balance a positive book about the impact of automation on jobs, but as I write “While the practitioners I interviewed were positive about the new technologies and their impact on work, a number of academicians, analysts, and economists are worried sick about the new machine age and envision a jobless future. Their pessimism, amplified by politicians, is leading to widespread gloom on the street. Internationally, it is even leading to referenda about whether citizens should be guaranteed minimum incomes, irrespective of work […]

Robots and AI eating into job market for predictable and routine work

Robots and AI eating into job market for predictable and routine work

Robots and early AI are already proficient enough to displace vast tracts of predictable physical work and data process and collection tasks in the US. The effect of automation may see more and more tasks taken away from humans, across a wide range of professions, either creating more time for different tasks – or seeing a reduction in FTE. Management of people remains an area with a low automation potential – given current technologies.

Automation has the potential to free humanity from the fetters of repetitive, physically demanding and, often, unpleasant work. The loss of such work, particularly where […]

Automation predicted to cut workforce in half, but education could decide who stays

Automation predicted to cut workforce in half, but education could decide who stays

(1 of 2) Is automation your job friend or foe? (PIOTR DEBOWSKI / SHUTTERSTOCK) Do you see yourself partnering with robots to do your job? Many people already are finding that working with robots and other technologies has greatly improved their ability to do their jobs. For some, partnering with a robot partner has given them superpowers.

Take the case of a women with leukemia who wasn’t responding to treatment. To solve the mystery, doctors asked IBM’s Watson, a supercomputer loaded with artificial intelligence, to figure it out. In just 10 minutes, Watson diagnosed the right type of leukemia, which […]

Enemy is poor education, not mechanisation

Enemy is poor education, not mechanisation

THE replacement of people in the workplace by machines has been feared throughout history. During the Industrial Revolution, workers known as Luddites attacked and destroyed the machines that threatened their jobs.

Yet while mechanisation did bring great hardship to the cottage weavers and spinners, fears of widespread unemployment proved unfounded. Mechanisation brought about rising prosperity and demand for new products and services. Lower production costs meant lower prices, which generated greater demand for goods previously affordable only to the wealthy.

As a result, the new machines set the scene for massive increases in jobs, wages and prosperity unequalled in history.Today, the […]