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How robots, AI and automation are shaking up Iowa’s workforce. Is your job at risk?

How robots, AI and automation are shaking up Iowa's workforce. Is your job at risk?

Take a look at how this sweet Iowa treat is made, and find out how the Country Maid pastry plant in West Bend is increasing it’s production with automation. Michael Zamora (Photo: Michael Zamora/The Register) WEST BEND, Ia. — If one machine goes down inside the Country Maid plant, the whole operation devoted to churning out Butter Braid pastries comes to a screeching halt.

The stainless steel giants that make up the automated production line constantly talk with each other. When something goes wrong at one station, an alert is instantly sent to the next in line, effectively cutting workers […]

Why robots may not replace humans after all

Economist John Maynard Keynes conjectured in 1930 that all human workers would be replaced by machines, leading to “technological unemployment.” This and similar prophesies have inspired a cottage industry of research examining what might happen in a robot-led future. Previous studies, including the 2016 World Bank’s World Development Report, have estimated that roughly half of all workers will be at risk of losing their jobs to automation over the next 20 years.

But MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Boston University’s Pascual Restrepo analyze the effect of industrial robots and find a more modest effect on job loss.

Industrial robots (IRs) are fully […]

Google’s robot journalism project

Google’s robot journalism project

news robots A robot journalism project where computes write 30,000 stories a month for local media is going to be funded by Google. The scheme that will be launched in 2018 will use human journalists with the Press Association (PA) News Agency and will be funded £622,000 for the project, according to the BBC .

To automate reports about crime, health and employment, five people will use official open data sources.

The PA announced that Reporters and Data and Robots (Radar) would benefit “established media outlets”, independent publishers and local bloggers. ‘Cost effective ways to produce local stories’ “Skilled human journalists […]

Experts Predict Inevitable, Far-Reaching Tech Revolution

Experts Predict Inevitable, Far-Reaching Tech Revolution

Thiruvananthapuram: A technological upheaval, with far-reaching consequences playing out on a larger scale and smaller time-frame than even the Industrial Revolution, is imminent, say experts. They called for a paradigm shift in how businesses and employees plan to navigate this sea change.

“While change is a welcome constant, the adaptability of entities already in Kerala’s IT ecosystem will be severely tested. They will need to prepare substantively for rapid change to stay relevant since emerging players and students will already possess the skills to succeed in the new landscape,” said M. Sivasankar, Kerala Electronics and IT Secretary.

He was speaking at […]

Thinking For Day After Tomorrow: What Will UBI Mean For Illegal Immigration?

Thinking For Day After Tomorrow: What Will UBI Mean For Illegal Immigration?

If in future, the universal basic income is seriously considered for implementation, it would be prudent to ask—what impact will it have on illegal immigration and hence, on national security?

The discussion on Universal Basic Income (UBI) in India’s Economic Survey of 2017-18 has been both significant and surprising. Significant, for UBI finds a detailed and in-depth discussion in this Economic Survey, and surprising because, in a conservative vision document such as the said Survey, a revolutionary concept as that of the UBI has been given such considerable space. In the Survey this year, India’s Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian, […]

/pol/ – Politically Incorrect

/pol/ - Politically Incorrect

>> >>132674019 (OP)
All people who can’t or won’t work should be paid a flat rate.
>costs less than the current welfare state that spends more money on administration than benefits
However people who want and choose to work should not get basic income
>this would cause massive inflation as goods and services would simply take a massive hike in order to take advantage of the fact everyone was now X amount richer.The current bullshit with universal income is that workers should be paid it too..I even discussed this with one of the leading proponents of universal income and pointed out […]

Jockeys get on board for mental health campaign

Jockeys get on board for mental health campaign

Jockey Richard Johnson is helping to promote mental health campaign. ON the racecourse, there is no jockey as competitive as Richard Johnson. Off the track, no one takes their wider responsibilities to the sport as seriously as the two-time champion.

Not one of his fellow riders has a bad word to say about the man who is the latest high-profile sportsman to front Time to Change’s newly-launched In Your Corner campaign that is raising awareness about mental health.

With one in four people fighting a mental health problem in any given year, Johnson – together with his weighing room […]

The digital divide: why the skills gap must be addressed to tackle inequality

Automation anxiety: the role technology is playing in rising inequality has become a hot topic

In 1821, the eminent political economist David Ricardo remarked: “The substitution of machinery for human labour is often very injurious to the interests of the class of labourers… [it] may render the population redundant and deteriorate the condition of the labourer.” Little over a century later, John Maynard Keynes identified a similar predicament: “Technological unemployment… [is an issue born of] our discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses of labour.”

Fast-forward another century and […]

Facebook’s Zuckerberg says universal basic income is a ‘bipartisan idea’

Facebook's Zuckerberg says universal basic income is a 'bipartisan idea'

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at his company’s annual F8 developer conference, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) (Noah Berger) Facebook ( FB ) founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is renewing his call for a universal basic income in the United States.

In a post on his social media page, Zuckerberg wrote about his weekend in Alaska—part of his “Year of Travel” challenge—where he and his wife, Priscilla, visited local residents and learned about the state’s economic programs, in particular the Permanent Fund Dividend, a form of basic income which provides full-time, law-abiding Alaskans with […]

We can’t afford not to provide a new social safety net

We can’t afford not to provide a new social safety net

Globe and Mail columnist Gary Mason. (Globe and Mail Update) In May, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to his alma mater, Harvard University, to deliver a commencement address.

Mr. Zuckerberg spent only one year at the prestigious American university but it was a famous one: It was in his dorm in his freshman year that he created his world-changing social-media network. Humorous at the outset, his address got plenty serious in a hurry.

“It’s time for our generation to define a new social contract,” he told the graduates. “Every generation expands the definition of equality and we must too.” And along […]