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Sunday Perspective: Will robots wipe out jobs?

Tech-savvy people agree that snowballing robotics, computerization and artificial intelligence will erase many routine American jobs in the coming decade — but most hope the machine revolution also will create enough fields of new work to replace the losses.

Pew Research asked 1,896 experts to predict where automation is heading. Here are a few replies.

n Webbmedia Group CEO Amy Webb: “There is a general concern that the robots are taking over. I disagree that our emerging technologies will permanently displace most of the workforce — though I’d argue that jobs will shift into other sectors. Now more than ever, an […]

Meet the Person Whose Life Is Being Changed by Universal Basic Income

Meet the Person Whose Life Is Being Changed by Universal Basic Income

Universal Basic Income (UBI) is being explored in part as a potential solution to job automation in the future.

It’s already being implemented in some countries, and is beginning to affect the lives of real people.

The Reputation of UBI Lets face it. Getting money each month just for being alive sounds pretty great. But with that perk comes a whole bunch of backlash.Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a concept where all citizens of a country are given a monetary stipend each month in order to survive. The practice is being explored in part as a potential solution to […]

Thread: U.S. investors see more automation, not jobs, under Trump administration

Aha I’ve found it. The Autors paper on trade and automation. Lets check it out.
Local labour markets with greater exposure to trade competition experience differentially large declines in manufacturing employment, with corresponding growth in unemployment and non-employment. The employment decline is not limited to production jobs but instead affects all major occupation groups, including a notable decline in managerial, professional and technical jobs. Employment losses are particularly large among workers without college education, for whom we also observe employment declines outside the manufacturing sector which may stem from local demand spillovers. While trade exposure reduces overall employment and […]

Across the aisle: It is a balloon, it is a kite!

Across the aisle: It is a balloon, it is a kite!

It is the Budget season. The good, bad and ugly (ideas) will be on display. One idea that is in the realm of speculation is Universal Basic Income (UBI). The Chief Economic Adviser has promised a detailed analysis of the subject in the Economic Survey that will be presented to Parliament on the eve of the Budget. However, there is no word yet from the government. Usually voluble ministers have been careful not to utter a word on the subject.

UBI is not a novel idea. Countries that have a comprehensive social security scheme provide a cash payment as well […]

English Subtitles for Universal Basic Income

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Smiths Falls takes U-turn on ‘basic income’ stance

Smiths Falls takes U-turn on ‘basic income’ stance

After more than 250 people attended an information session on the income pilot last week, Smiths Falls council revisited the matter and the response from constituents swayed members to reverse course. SMITHS FALLS – Despite previously shutting down the idea, town council’s committee of the whole reversed its decision and voted to lobby the province for consideration in its basic income pilot project.

Mayor Shawn Pankow previously sent the Ministry of Community and Social Services (MCSS) a letter expressing interest for the town to be considered as a pilot site for the Basic Income Pilot Program, but the town’s committee […]

#WEF2017: Job-stealing robots a concern

#WEF2017: Job-stealing robots a concern

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Panasonic’s prototype delivery robot, HOSPI, designed to serve bottled beverages and provide bus information, is pictured at a hotel near Narita International Airport in Narita Davos – Open markets and global trade have been blamed for job losses over the last decade, but global CEOs say the real culprits are increasingly machines.

And while business leaders gathered at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos relish the productivity gains technology can bring, they warned this week that the collateral damage to jobs needs to be addressed more seriously.From taxi drivers to healthcare professionals, technologies […]

Pinterest • The world’s catalogue of ideas

Pinterest • The world’s catalogue of ideas

Switzerland basic income: Landmark vote looms Most of the Finns are on summer vacation in July. During the summer months many Finns move out to their summer cottages. Proctor had found that the cigarette industry did not want consumers to know the harms of its product, and it spent billions obscuring the facts of the health effects of smoking. This search led him to create a word for the study of deliberate propagation of ignorance: agnotology. How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this […]

Joe Rogan On Universal Basic Income

Joe Rogan On Universal Basic Income

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Gwynne Dyer: Rise of the machine — why the rich are worried

Gwynne Dyer: Rise of the machine — why the rich are worried

A man works amid orange robot arms at Rapoo Technology factory in the southern Chinese industrial boomtown of Shenzhen, Aug. 21, 2015. The job market has changed greatly in the past decade, with manufacturing and administrative jobs in decline due to globalization and automation. ©Vincent Yu/AP file photo Gwynne Dyer What was striking was that Kerry didn’t have to clarify his remark for the 2,000 “global leaders” — politicians, bureaucrats, business representatives and public intellectuals — who are in the Swiss alpine town of Davos for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF). They all know what he’s talking about.

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