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More than 75% of American workers aren’t worried about their jobs being replaced by robots, AI

More than 75% of American workers aren't worried about their jobs being replaced by robots, AI

For all the hype about artificial intelligence (AI) completely replacing human jobs, the vast majority of Americans are still not very worried about it. According to the 2017 Randstad Employer Brand Research , released Tuesday, a whopping 76% of US workers do not fear that their job will be replaced by a machine.

In fact, only 14% of American employees hold this fear. And 30% actually welcome automation in the workplace, which they said could improve their current jobs.

The findings, which seems to contradict popular opinion, are based on a survey gauging employee attitudes about AI and automation. According to […]

Trump is wasting crucial time with his crazy, archaic job ideas

Trump is wasting crucial time with his crazy, archaic job ideas

(Tom Toles)

Have we finished talking about bringing back coal-mining jobs yet? Or are we still giving that some more pointless deliberation? How about traditional manufacturing jobs? Shall we pretend a while more on that topic? While President Trump is sitting in the fire truck for his photo op about American jobs, he apparently can’t see the fire right in front of him. And apparently, neither do we.

It’s true enough that we have been through a wrenching series of changes in our economy. The last election was to a large degree about just that. But as bad and dislocating as […]

Chris Hughes Is Shopping a Book About How He Shouldn’t Be So Rich

If you think Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is the luckiest human being since Ringo Starr , you’re not alone: Chris Hughes, apparently, agrees with you.

A copy of Hughes’s proposal for a book tentatively titled We Should All Be So Lucky: Notes on Fortune, Hard Work, and the Basic Income is making the rounds of publishers now via the Levine Greenberg Rostan literary agency. Its introduction places readers in a room with Hughes and wealth advisers almost six months after Facebook went public. The “lock-up” period after which Hughes can sell some of his stock is about to expire.

Hughes didn’t […]

Is Guaranteed Income for All the Answer to Joblessness and Poverty?

Is Guaranteed Income for All the Answer to Joblessness and Poverty?

Credit: manopjk Getty Images Everything old is new again, as the saying goes, including the controversial idea that the solution to economic upheaval is free money.

Universal basic income (UBI), a social policy that guarantees a fixed, unconditional stipend to all members of a designated group or entire country, has been kicked around for centuries by thinkers from Thomas Paine to Milton Friedman. Now it is experiencing new life as autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence and other advancing technologies rattle labor markets and foreshadow a future in which there simply may not be enough jobs for everybody who wants one.

Big-time disrupters […]

The ground has shifted. Is the time right for basic income?

The ground has shifted. Is the time right for basic income?

Joe Chrisp is a PhD student at the IPR. His doctoral research is on the feasibility of a universal basic income

Despite the Conservative Party still winning the most seats, the General Election was undoubtedly a seismic event that shook the foundations of how many people understand politics. Yet, there are almost as many people that claim to have the answer to the GE puzzle as there were people who claimed it was a foregone conclusion. By explaining the result people are also attempting to map out a path forwards and predict what it means for politics in the […]

Get ready because the Universal Basic Income is going to sweep the nation… and it’s not good

Get ready because the Universal Basic Income is going to sweep the nation… and it’s not good

( Natural News ) The Hawaii legislature recently passed a bill to explore the concept of implementing a universal basic income, or UBI, for its residents. The purpose, as its name implies, is to offer people who are seeking job retraining or who are only able to work part-time the opportunity to maintain a basic standard of living without going into poverty. But will it work? And more importantly, who will pay for it?

Known as House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 89, the bill tasks Hawaii with establishing a working group to focus on establishing basic economic security for the state’s […]

Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant?

Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant?

LONDON – As the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow noted in 1987 , computers are “everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Since then, the so-called productivity paradox has become ever more striking. Automation has eliminated many jobs. Robots and artificial intelligence now seem to promise (or threaten) yet more radical change. Yet productivity growth has slowed across the advanced economies; in Britain, labor is no more productive today than it was in 2007.

Some economists see low business investment, poor skills, outdated infrastructure, or excessive regulation holding back potential growth. Others note wide disparities in productivity between leaders and laggards […]

Opportunities party promises universal basic income for youth – Newshub

NewshubOpportunities party promises universal basic income for youthNewshubThe Opportunities Party (TOP) is promising to give young people $200 per week as part of its universal basic income policy. It’s no strings attached cash for all young people aged 18 to 23 and won’t be means tested. Party leader Gareth Morgan says it’s …and more »

– Unconditional Basic Income for Youth Launched – Scoop.co.nz (press release)

Unconditional Basic Income for Youth LaunchedScoop.co.nz (press release)The Opportunities Party today launched its policy of an unconditional basic income (UBI) for all New Zealanders aged 18 to 23. 17 July 2017. Media Release: Embargoed […]

Joyce: Youth basic income ‘sends wrong message’

Joyce: Youth basic income 'sends wrong message'

Mr Joyce told reporters Mr Morgan was "heading in the wrong direction". (Photo Getty Images) Finance Minister Steven Joyce says Gareth Morgan is sending the wrong message with his proposed policy to give all young people an unconditional state-funded basic income of $200 a week after tax.

Mr Morgan’s Opportunities Party launched the policy on Tuesday, saying everyone aged 18 to 23 would be eligible and they wouldn’t be stood down, drug tested or examined.

"The youth UBI is designed to give any young person the sort of security they need to learn, search for work, pursue a career or […]

Will a robot take your job?

Will a robot take your job?

taskmate robot BALTIMORE —

Robots taking over the world might sound like science fiction, but just how far from reality is it?

A new report by professional services firm Price Waterhouse Coopers predicts robots will take over 38 percent of American jobs by 2030.Take, for example, the "taskmate" robot that bevels the edges of a metal rod just like a human would do in a machine shop. One might imagine it would take a robotics engineer hours, even days, to program this multi-step task. Not so."I can teach you how to use this in 10 minutes. If you can play […]