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Mitigating AI’s effect on mental health

Mitigating AI’s effect on mental health

The burgeoning technology can have an adverse impact on workers’ wellbeing – it’s up to leaders to help counter it, says Patrick Brodie Getty Images The fear of job losses because of technology and automation, including artificial intelligence, has been with us since the 1960s. For some time, academics have predicted the decline of routine, rules-based and process-driven roles. Indeed, research within the last decade (and especially over the last year or so) has sounded ever more loudly the call that tasks and processes will be replaced by AI. Studies suggest that with the right combination of technologies most […]

India is on a path of digitalisation that is different from China and US: Soumitra Dutta, Dean of Said Business School

India is on a path of digitalisation that is different from China and US: Soumitra Dutta, Dean of Said Business School

It’s time India starts focusing on developing a truly world-class AI infrastructure in the country to reap its dividends, says the Dean of Oxford University’s Said Business School.

Soumitra Dutta says there is an urgent need for India to increase its spend on R&D and other academic research. While India may have made a mark in the software services exports, it has lagged a bit in terms of adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), says Soumitra Dutta , Dean of Oxford University ‘s Said Business School . Dutta, a professor of Indian origin, says India has to now focus on […]

Beware green colonialism

Beware green colonialism

The writer is an academic and researcher. He is also the author of Development, Poverty, and Power in Pakistan, available from Routledge The global community has not yet shown sufficient resolve to curb global warming emissions to avert catastrophic climate change. Moreover, the very effort to transition away from dirty fossil fuels to cleaner ‘green’ energy is becoming increasingly contentious.
Transitioning away from using fossil fuels is necessary, of course, yet the way this transition takes place merits careful consideration to avert worsening the existing inequities plaguing our world.
The predominant concern amongst those who define the […]

The Future of Work and the Impact of Automation on Jobs in Gig Economy in Thailand: A Review of Literature

The Future of Work and the Impact of Automation on Jobs in Gig Economy in Thailand: A Review of Literature

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Future of Work, Automation, Gig Economy, Thailand Abstract

Purpose: This article aims to analyze the diverse factors that exert a substantial impact on Thailand’s gig economy. The factors encompassed in this discussion comprise the potential ramifications of automation, the emergence of novel employment prospects, and the significance of education, labor, and collaboration between industry and academia. Methodology: The authors systematically organized the data to identify patterns, with an emphasis on automation, job creation, and education-industry collaboration. The authors investigated the potential impact of automation on the gig economy, the possibility of job displacement and the need for […]

Could artificial intelligence really boost labour productivity?

Could artificial intelligence really boost labour productivity?

Artificial intelligence has long been theorised as a cure for the West’s ailing productivity growth . As the McKinsey Global Institute has shown, workplace productivity growth has been stagnant for about 40 years. But the discourse on the productivity effects of AI has been almost entirely speculative. Until recently, evidence of large-scale exposure to AI was absent from data.

In the last 10 years, scholars such as Daron Acemoglu and David Autor have shown how computerisation has led to an intra-firm re-allocation of skills and corresponding wage premiums via skill-biased technological change. Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo showed that the equilibrium […]

The Impact of Automation on Employment: Just the Usual Structural Change?

The Impact of Automation on Employment: Just the Usual Structural Change?

The impact of automation on employment is not the "end of work" but rather a usual structural change . Studies have shown that while there may be job displacement in certain sectors due to automation, it is compensated by job creation in other sectors, including newly created labor-intensive sectors . The introduction of robotics and AI may affect employment in "applying" sectors, but job creation in "making" sectors and complementary sectors helps to balance the overall employment shifts . Research has also highlighted the importance of technological innovation for economic progress and the need for social programs to alleviate […]

Forget about a job for life; today’s workers need to prepare for many jobs across multiple industries

opinions By Ruchi Sinha ADELAIDE, Australia

Both my parents worked for 30-plus years for their employers – they had lifelong careers at a single company. Growing up, they taught me the importance of “loyalty” and “commitment.”

But in a rapidly changing world, the concept of a job for life has become as rare as a dial-up internet connection.This shift from stable, long-term employment and single-employer careers to a world where frequent job changes are the norm comes directly from globalization, rapid technological advancements and the changing ideas about work. Why such rapid change now? Globalization has turned the world economy into […]

Automating ableism

Automating ableism

Illustration by Erik Carter In December, the US Census proposed changes to how it categorizes disability . If implemented, the changes would have slashed the number of Americans who are counted as disabled, when experts say that disabled people are already undercounted .

The Census opened its proposal to public comment; anyone can submit a comment on a federal agency rulemaking on their own. But in this specific case, the people who were most affected by the proposal had more obstacles in the way of giving their input.

“It was really important to me to try to figure out how to […]

Generative AI’s biggest impact will be in banking and tech: Report

Generative AI’s biggest impact will be in banking and tech: Report

Companies in finance have some of the highest percentages of their payrolls likely to be disrupted by generative AI. A new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to turn old assumptions about technology on their head.

For years, people working in warehouses or fast food restaurants worried that automation could eliminate their jobs. But new research suggests that generative AI – the kind used in chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT – will have its biggest impact on white-collar workers with high-paying jobs in industries such as banking and tech.

A report published on Feb 1 by the Burning Glass Institute, […]

The Digital Transformation of Labor : Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare

Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process causes (or may cause) the autonomy of various labor functions, and its impact in creating (or stymieing) various job opportunities on the labor market. This book also seeks to illuminate what actors/groups are mostly benefited by the digitalization/digital transformation and which actors/groups that are put at risk by it.This book takes its point of departure from a 2016 OECD report that contends that the impact digitalization has on the future of labor is ambiguous, as on the one […]