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"Universal Basic Income: Has its Time Come? It is an idea that has been around for hundreds of years–to give everyone in society a regular chunk of money that is enough to guarantee them a minimum survivable standard of living. Often called Universal or Unconditional Basic Income, the idea has supporters on both right & left. It was cast back into the spotlight this year when the Swiss held a referendum on whether to introduce it. Pilot schemes to test the idea are cropping up… from Berry Four Leaf Clover 4 Leaf Clover Green Three Leaf Leaf Green Green […]

VIDEO: Experimenting with Basic Income in Finland and the Netherlands – Basic Income News

VIDEO: Experimenting with Basic Income in Finland and the Netherlands - Basic Income News

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Mincome, a Canadian basic income pilot project – It’s human and societal effects

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How new manufacturing technology will impact jobs

How new manufacturing technology will impact jobs

Humans still have an important role to play in manufacturing and supply chain environments. The world is changing but what does this mean for the future of work? Pierfranceso Manenti, vice president – research, SCM World, explains.

There has been a lot of scaremongering about the future of workers’ jobs and the role manufacturing technology plays in this; the fear of being replaced by a robot has existed for decades and is one that the media loves to play on. Pierfranceso Manenti, vice president – research, The reality, however, is more subtle. Jobs in industry will continue to exist, but […]

Free money is not so funny anymore: Confessions of a (former) skeptic of basic income

Free money is not so funny anymore: Confessions of a (former) skeptic of basic income

More and more evidence has contradicted my initial opposition to doling out money to Americans

Getting a tire replaced seems easy to me. I’d just go to the nearest tire place and get it fixed. But Jayleene was living from paycheck to paycheck and didn’t have $110 to spare. She couldn’t get to work, and her boss fired her. She couldn’t make her rent and was soon out on the street – all because she needed $110 at the right time.

Jayleene told me her story during my volunteer shift at a soup kitchen. Her experience was the final straw […]

GERMANY: Remarks by CEO of Europe’s largest engineering company spark interest in UBI

GERMANY: Remarks by CEO of Europe’s largest engineering company spark interest in UBI

On November 20, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that Joe Kaeser, CEO of the multibillion-dollar engineering company Siemens AG, has demanded a basic income.

According to the news report, Kaeser, speaking at the Süddeutsche Zeitung Economic Summit in Berlin, said that a basic income would eventually be necessary to protect workers who become displaced due to artificial intelligence and automation. Subsequently, many readers credited Kaeser with support for unconditional basic income (bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen), as endorsed by BIEN .

In later remarks, however, Kaeser clarified that he does not demand an unconditional basic income–as the Siemens Press Office tweeted on November 22: Source: […]

Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: In a column in The Guardian , the world-famous physicist wrote that "the automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes , with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining." He adds his voice to a growing chorus of experts concerned about the effects that technology will have on workforce in the coming years and decades. The fear is that while artificial intelligence will bring radical increases in […]

Facebook touts AI benefits as job risks loom

Facebook touts AI benefits as job risks loom

Silicon Valley is training computers to see, hear and speak. ThinkStock by Jessica Guynn

Silicon Valley is training computers to see, hear and speak and cars and trucks to drive themselves.

Some people aren’t so sure how they feel about this new wave of artificial intelligence that summons fears of Terminator-like sentient machines. So Facebook is trying to dispel some of the pop-culture myths with a series of six instructional videos that attempt to explain this complex field of computer science."I think the more open we can be about it and the more we can demystify and explain how it actually […]

David Rosenberg: Trump is pointing the finger at the wrong culprit on job losses

David Rosenberg: Trump is pointing the finger at the wrong culprit on job losses

If Donald Trump doesn’t carry out his protectionist threats, he risks being a one-term president, writes David Rosenberg. Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz delivered a terrific speech last week that is definitely worth a read, basically about how “creative destruction” is mostly at play behind this ever-declining share of manufacturing employment across the globe, no longer just confined to the developed world, either.

Here are some of the more lucid findings:

“Economists’ understanding of the evolution of economies is based on hundreds of years of history. Advances in technology lead to higher productivity and greater production, which in turn […]

Top Five Ways to Keep a Robot from Stealing Your Job

Top Five Ways to Keep a Robot from Stealing Your Job

by Kitty Testa

Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry has a current exhibit called Robot Revolution which presents the most recent developments in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). The exhibit showcases robots that demonstrate cooperation, social intelligence, superhuman precision in manipulating objects, and superior locomotion. Developments in robotics, AI and information systems over the past decade are extraordinary. These technological achievements elicit visions from a futurist’s Utopian dreams, as explained on the gateway to the museum’s web page for the exhibit. What’s interesting is that this intro includes the questions that every business is asking itself every day, “How could […]

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