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Here’s When Machines Will Take Your Job, as Predicted by AI Gurus

While technology develops at exponential speed, transforming how we go about our everyday tasks and extending our lives, it also offers much to worry about. In particular, many top minds think that automation will cost humans their employment, with up to 47% of all jobs gone in the next 25 years. And chances are, this number could be even higher and the massive job loss will come earlier.

So when will your job become obsolete? Researchers at the University of Oxford surveyed the world’s top artificial intelligence experts to find out when exactly machines will be better at humans in […]

Will a robot take your job? This website provides an answer (that you probably won’t like)

Will a robot take your job? This website provides an answer (that you probably won't like)

Image: Shutterstock / posteriori Here’s what we know about robots: Robots have taken jobs. Robots are taking jobs. Robots will take jobs.

The question remains, though: How many jobs? Hard to say.

Analysts, futurists, and academics vary in their assessment of just how many jobs (and perhaps more importantly which jobs) are at risk, but they generally all agree: things are going to change.So, with automation and artificial intelligence threatening to eliminate millions of jobs in the coming decades, should you be worried about the impending robot job revolution? There’s a website that will try to answer that question.Aptly titled " […]

Good News, Designers: The Robots Are Not Taking Your Jobs

Good News, Designers: The Robots Are Not Taking Your Jobs

As robots get more and more advanced, the panicked sci-fi claim “the robots are coming for your job!” seems less hyperbolic by the day. According to a 2013 study by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, two researchers at University of Oxford, the robots are indeed coming—specifically, for about 47% of jobs in the U.S.

The academic paper, titled The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?, is a bit dense, but thanks to an interactive website built by Mubashar Iqbar and designed by Dimitar Raykov , the results are now easy to explore. The site simplifies […]

A robot revolution might be coming but don’t believe the doomsday media

A robot revolution might be coming but don’t believe the doomsday media

More general macroeconomic conditions have “swamped any effect of robotic displacement” From apocalypses to zombie coups, humans adore doomsday tales and it’s not completely clear why. While fiction is fine, reality is of course much better so if anyone who’s even remotely credible can make a strong case for the end of the world being nigh – ideally based on “hard” data that conveniently backs up that thesis— then we’ll gobble it up in a flash. The media is perhaps guiltiest of all.

This is what appears to have happened in the curious case of the robots.

Hundreds of plausible news […]

Automation, Robots, and Job Losses Could Make Universal Income a Reality

Automation, Robots, and Job Losses Could Make Universal Income a Reality

The rise of automation and resulting job losses those issues incur could force the federal government to guarantee some income for everyone, but that won’t happen for years or even decades, according to some academics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This sort of payment, usually referred to as Universal Basic Income (UBI), has been embraced by much of Silicon Valley and other tech enclaves, in part to offset anxiety that the technology built in these places is killing off people’s livelihoods.

UBI, if enacted, would be a flat payment to every citizen that would, in theory, act as a basic […]

Robots are taking our jobs

Robots are taking our jobs

Innovation & Technology

| June 2017 issue

0 Rita Lobo is a Brazilian journalist in London. She specialises in politics and economics. She’s an avid traveller always on the lookout for a cheap flight to an exciting destination.Once a scenario fit only for a science fiction thriller, today many workers are seeing their jobs being taken by robots. Factories in Korea already have 4.78 robots per every 100 workers. The global average is around 0.66, but as this number grows the cost of implementing robot workers shrinks, making them a viable and cheaper alternative to human workers.According […]

Impact of AI, Robots, and Automation on Jobs: Tracking the “Hyperbole Cycle”

Impact of AI, Robots, and Automation on Jobs: Tracking the “Hyperbole Cycle”

I’ve been noticing how articles about how AI, robots, or automation will impact the future job outlook all seem to reuse the same terms, like “disrupt”, “steal”, or “threaten”. The thesaurus has only so many terms to go around I suppose. I got to wondering which terms were most popular, and then how they’ve changed over time.

So I ran some queries on Factiva. Factiva is a business information and research tool owned by Dow Jones & Company. My goal was not as much sentiment tracking as it was hyperbole tracking. By hyperbole I mean the breathless, panicky articles that […]

The Robot Economy: Ready or Not, Here It Comes

The Robot Economy: Ready or Not, Here It Comes

Duc Tran, an automation engineer, observes the fully autonomous robotic truck loader during a test at the Wynright Robotics facility in Arlington, Texas, July 18, 2012. (Photo: Brandon Thibodeaux / The New York Times) September 17 changed everything.

On that day in 2013, Oxford University published an innocuously titled academic paper by two mostly unknown economists. But " The Future of Employment " wasn’t just another number-crunching exercise in opacity by a couple of dreary scientists. No, their bombshell report portended a coming robot apocalypse that could change the nature of human civilization, and perhaps even human beings themselves.

Thankfully, the […]

Robots eat our brains!

Robots eat our brains!

Don’t fear – humankind will adapt, this here Pew report says

The Pew Research Center’s latest report, The Future of Jobs and Jobs Training , warns that machines are eating our brains.

"Brains" here refers to the contents of our brains, our skills, rather than actual gray matter. "Machines are eating humans’ jobs talents," the report declares as a prelude to its exploration of the consequences of automation on education and employment. It’s an awkwardly phrased conceit, but you get the idea.The prospect of widespread joblessness as a consequence of clever software and nimble hardware is a bit less alarming […]

Automation and Jobs – The Atlantic

Automation and Jobs – The Atlantic

Economists expect that millions of American jobs are going to be replaced by automation in the coming decades. But where will those job losses take place? Which areas will be hardest hit?

Much of the focus regarding automation has been on the Rust Belt. There, many workers have been replaced by machines, and the number of factory jobs has slipped as more production is offshored. While a lot of the rhetoric about job loss in the Rust Belt has centered on such outsourcing, one study from Ball State University found that only 13 percent of manufacturing job losses are attributable […]