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The Guardian view on a job guarantee: a policy whose time has come

The Guardian view on a job guarantee: a policy whose time has come

Victor Hugo once remarked: “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.” Today, in the United States, a job guarantee seems just such an idea. Progressives of all shades – from Cory Booker to Bernie Sanders – have embraced policies that to varying degrees say the state should seek to do away with involuntary unemployment. This is a welcome return to a politics of work, which has been missing for too long from advanced economies. It is also heartening that polls suggest the job guarantee is popular , with half of voters […]

Why you should hate your job

Why you should hate your job

How the reality of employment is one of perpetual disappointment and the case against the work ethic Do you like your job? Maybe you do, but I think you should reevaluate. At the very least, I think you should be uncomfortable with the fact that you live in a system that compels you to have a job, particularly if that job is neither necessary for your own well-being nor the well-being of others. Thanks to advances in robotics and AI, we may be close to building a society in which work, as we currently know it, is no longer […]

Law Firm Asks AI Engine To Draft Answers: ‘Upon Information And Belief… ERROR 404’

Law Firm Asks AI Engine To Draft Answers: ‘Upon Information And Belief… ERROR 404’

If there’s any task in litigation ripe for artificial intelligence to swoop in and take over, it’s the process of answering a complaint. Frankly, drafting an answer is the closest legal work comes to coding — carefully crafting a string of words to guarantee that it’s impossible to “run” any paragraph of the complaint to allow an admission of anything that isn’t absolutely, inarguably true.

It’s also just boring.

That’s where LegalMation’s solution comes in. Another in the arsenal of solutions out there working with IBM’s Watson technology, LegalMation allows the user to drag and drop the PDF of a complaint […]

AI might take your job – but it could save your career

AI might take your job – but it could save your career

Andrew Dunckelman leads the Google.org Work Initiative. Joe Greenwood is lead executive for data at MaRS Discovery District.

As the end of the academic year approaches, thousands of graduates are about to enter a strong job market. According to the Royal Bank of Canada, Canada’s economy is on target to add 2.4 million jobs over the next four years. But do our graduates have the skills they need to land these jobs?

On paper, they are better prepared for work than their parents, with more holding advanced degrees. But the kinds of jobs available, and the very nature of work, […]

Automation and jobs

@BBGVisualData Search for Automation Technician jobs at Monster. Advances in automation and robotics are putting a lot of jobs at risk. @BBGVisualData Apply to 20633 Automation Jobs on Naukri. The study, compiled by the McKinsey Global Institute, says that advances in AI and robotics will have a drastic effect on everyday working lives, comparable to the shift away from agricultural Jobs and Careers at the Automation Personnel Services, Inc. The study, compiled by the McKinsey Global Institute, says that advances in AI and robotics will have a drastic effect on everyday working lives, comparable to the shift away from […]

Bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks have the highest risk of automation

Bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks have the highest risk of automation

production line in modern dairy factory With 35 percent of all jobs in South Africa (almost 5.7 million jobs) currently at risk of total digital automation within a mere 7 years, the country could see a crippling effect compounded by a fragile economy and growing unemployment.

Bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks have the highest risk of automation. It’s not just manual labour jobs.

Dr Roze Phillips, Post Graduate Diploma in Futures Studies alumnus from the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) and Managing Director for Accenture Consulting in Africa says that the country needs to act now to ensure that humans […]

Can a Mad Max dystopia be stopped? Ex-RTP entrepreneur Wadhwa to find out at Harvard

Can a Mad Max dystopia be stopped? Ex-RTP entrepreneur Wadhwa to find out at Harvard

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Vivek Wadhwa is taking his globe-trotting research into technology’s impact on our present and future with a new appointment at Harvard Law School. Vivek Wadhwa Wadhwa has been named a Distinguished Fellow with the Labor and Worklife program at Harvard Law School “to help with what I consider to be the most important research project of our times: to understand the impact of technology on jobs and develop policies to mitigate the dangers.”

Reached by WRAL TechWire, Wadhwa says the project is “something that [economist] Richard Freeman and I have long been discussing. There is anecdotal […]

Can a Mad Max dystopia be stopped? Ex-RTP entrepreneur Wadhwa to find out at Harvard

Can a Mad Max dystopia be stopped? Ex-RTP entrepreneur Wadhwa to find out at Harvard

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Vivek Wadhwa is taking his globe-trotting research into technology’s impact on our present and future with a new appointment at Harvard Law School. Vivek Wadhwa Wadhwa has been named a Distinguished Fellow with the Labor and Worklife program at Harvard Law School “to help with what I consider to be the most important research project of our times: to understand the impact of technology on jobs and develop policies to mitigate the dangers.”

Reached by WRAL TechWire, Wadhwa says the project is “something that [economist] Richard Freeman and I have long been discussing. There is anecdotal […]

Automation risks costing people their health as well as their jobs

Automation risks costing people their health as well as their jobs

Unease over the role of automation-related job losses has risen in recent years, spawning academic conferences, research studies and a host of news stories. To be sure, productivity growth through better automation and work processes should be a welcomed feature of any economy.

There is a justified concern, however, for workers who find themselves unable to work due to obsolete skills. That worry is the basis for significant investments in workforce training and skill enhancements in every state, but what if there’s more to the problem? Does the risk of automation-related job losses effect more than labor market outcomes?

That question […]

Automation risks costing people their health as well as their jobs

Automation risks costing people their health as well as their jobs

© Getty Images Unease over the role of automation-related job losses has risen in recent years, spawning academic conferences, research studies and a host of news stories. To be sure, productivity growth through better automation and work processes should be a welcomed feature of any economy.

There is a justified concern, however, for workers who find themselves unable to work due to obsolete skills. That worry is the basis for significant investments in workforce training and skill enhancements in every state, but what if there’s more to the problem? Does the risk of automation-related job losses effect more than labor […]