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AI: “Asian Intelligence”

AI: “Asian Intelligence”

Image by Pawel Nolbert is licensed under the Unsplash License. Asian people are no strangers to being characterized as passionless and mechanical. This perception causes us to be perceived as robots, contributing to an existing implicit bias that Asians lack emotional intelligence and communication skills. Such a portrayal then justifies the techno-Orientalist fearmongering that pervades current political discourse in America, particularly the tension over technological development and trade conflict between China and the United States.

This characterization is deeply intertwined with the model minority stereotype, one which is certainly no new phenomenon. In 1988, political cartoonist Garry Trudeau published this […]

Will AI take our jobs? That’s what everyone is talking about at Davos right now

Will AI take our jobs? That's what everyone is talking about at Davos right now

The one question on leaders’ minds as they debate the future of generative AI at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos is how the tech might change the future of employment.

The annual gabfest attracts thousands of attendees, including top academics, businesses, and representatives of governments to mull over the most pressing global issues. Given the potential for generative AI to upend economies, it’s not surprising the tech is dominating many discussions this year.

It’s not clear when AI will impact economies by changing employment patterns, but OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman doesn’t believe that jobs are currently at risk."This is […]

Critical Perspective in Technology Essay

The Evolution of Technology: A Historical Overview

Technology’s development is a story of human creativity. It started with Stone Age tools and evolved to meet society’s needs and goals. Machinery revolutionized agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation throughout the Industrial Revolution. The digital revolution began with the invention of electronic computers in the 20th century. Early machines were the size of vast rooms, but they quickly became more powerful and tiny, becoming our personal computers. The late 20th century saw the Internet, which revolutionized communication and information sharing. The Advent of the Digital Age

Since the late 20th century, digital technology […]

Why we need a new focus on skills amid the technological disruption of the jobs market

Why we need a new focus on skills amid the technological disruption of the jobs market

You are here: Home / Business / Why we need a new focus on skills amid the technological disruption of the jobs market (Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum .

Author: Hashim Alsharif Alzaabi, Managing Partner , The Fifth Element, Christian Gemayel, Partner, The Fifth Element Technology’s impact on job dynamics is already being felt, with automation and AI forecast to create 12 million more jobs than they displace by 2025.

This trend highlights the necessity for a paradigm shift in how we […]

Robots Free Humans from Repetitive Tasks

Robots Free Humans from Repetitive Tasks

Print The holiday season is the busiest time of the year for online shopping. On Cyber Monday and Black Friday this year, Amazon sold more than one billion items, and Black Friday shopping sales totaled $9.8 billion . A typical Amazon Hub facility in Port Wentworth, Georgia processed more than 90,000 packages during the busy buying weekend, up from the typical 50,000 packages.

During the holiday season, Amazon (and all big retailers) ramp up hiring, but Amazon has been hit with complaints and lawsuits about unsafe working conditions. State labor regulators have fined Amazon for a workplace that exposes employees […]

The Automation of General Intelligence

The Automation of General Intelligence

An illustration of Henry Case and Molly Minions from Neuromancer, painting by Juan Giménez. We want to ask the right questions. How do the tools work? Who finances and builds them, and how are they used? Whom do they enrich, and whom do they impoverish? What futures do they make feasible, and which ones do they foreclose? We’re not looking for answers. We’re looking for logic.
—Logic Magazine manifesto, 20171 We live in the age of digital data, and in that age mathematics has become the parliament of politics. The social law has become interwoven with models, theorems […]

Displacement Effects of Automation: Urban vs. Non-Urban Perspectives

Displacement Effects of Automation: Urban vs. Non-Urban Perspectives

An article recently published in the journal npj Urban Sustainability explores the displacement effects of automation technologies on urban versus non-urban labor markets. They argue that while automation displaces jobs across all settings, the impacts are unequal. Displacement primarily hits low-skilled workers in non-cities who may exit the workforce entirely. In cities, reinstatement and a shift towards higher-skilled, better-paid occupations offset adverse effects – potentially widening inequality. Study: Displacement Effects of Automation: Urban vs. Non-Urban Perspectives. Image credit: IM Imagery/Shutterstock Recent advances in AI, machine learning, robotics, and other technologies have raised longstanding fears about technological unemployment. Historically, automation […]

Protecting workers’ rights throughout the AI revolution

Protecting workers' rights throughout the AI revolution

The European Employment and Social Rights Forum brought together business leaders, academics, trade union leaders, and policymakers to discuss how AI is changing the world of work. (Photo: European Employment and Social Rights Forum)

Listen to article Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform economies and increase global GDP by trillions of euros over the next 10 years. At the same time, AI technologies present significant new challenges for workers’ rights, including new forms of automation, workplace surveillance, and discrimination.

Labor disputes are already impacted by developments of AI in the workplace. For example, IndustriALL Europe has called […]

A.I. job postings as a share of all job postings

A.I. job postings as a share of all job postings

Digital workers The entertainment industry has long churned out movies and television shows about machines equipped with artificial intelligence taking over—and destroying—humanity. But this past July, when actress Fran Drescher told the crowd at a press conference that “we are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines,” it was not part of a science fiction script.

Drescher, who is also president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, was announcing the beginning of the union’s long-anticipated strike. SAG-AFTRA was joining the Writers Guild of America—an organization of unions representing writers in film, […]

How Are AI and Robotics Redefining Productivity?

How Are AI and Robotics Redefining Productivity?

How Are AI and Robotics Redefining Productivity? Adopting new technologies like AI and robots can drastically shift an organization’s processes from top to bottom. Wharton professor Lynn Wu joins Eric Bradlow, vice dean of Analytics at Wharton, to discuss how automation and artificial intelligence impact physical labor, productivity, and human resources. This interview is part of a special 10-part series called “AI in Focus.”

Watch the video or read the full transcript below. Transcript

Eric Bradlow : Welcome, everyone, to the Wharton Sirius XM podcast series on artificial intelligence, sponsored by Analytics at Wharton, and AI at Wharton. […]