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How employees feel about their jobs can make or break a company’s A.I. transformation. Here’s how leaders should handle it

How employees feel about their jobs can make or break a company’s A.I. transformation. Here’s how leaders should handle it

What constitutes meaningful work for humans in a new, A.I.-driven reality? Artificial intelligence is upending not just how people work, but how they relate to their jobs—their professional identity. A.I. uniquely impacts white-collar workers in a way no technologies have before.

In the past, automation technologies focused on automating portions of physical tasks performed by humans. The rise of robotics did just that, displacing low-skilled workers from the manufacturing process of goods like cars. The development of software, on the other hand, affected middle-skilled workers, by automating more complex tasks. A.I. is now coming for white-collar skills—decision-making and intellectual abilities—that […]

How do we create a future of work that centres on the wellbeing of people?

How do we create a future of work that centres on the wellbeing of people?

In an environment of accelerating automation and digitalisation, will lifelong learning be the key to staying in our chosen job or profession? How should we address the challenge of informal work? What will happen to jobs impacted by the climate crisis? And what role will trade unions play in all of this?

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A little over a decade and a half ago, a consulate official in Hong Kong told me: “I’m 50 years old, I’ve already studied what I had to study and I’m not going to get any more training. I’m 50, 50!” I don’t remember what […]

Maybe AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job After All

Maybe AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job After All

(Shutterstock) GOOD LUCK TRACKING THE ZIG-ZAGS OF academic research on artificial intelligence and the future of work. A University of Pennsylvania/OpenAI study earlier this year found that 80 percent of jobs could see some of their tasks automated through generative AI and around 20 percent could have half or more of their workload fully automated. The same study rang other alarm bells by pointing out how white-collar professionals, rather than lower-skilled workers, were most at risk of AI-driven automation.

Several weeks ago, a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research of the actual impacts of AI on […]

Telephone operation was a good career for women. Then it got automated.

Telephone operation was a good career for women. Then it got automated.

Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania operators in 1945. By that point, the process of automating telephone operation was well underway. Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox’s Future Perfect section and has worked at Vox since 2014. He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts, economic policy and theory, and conflicts about the right way to do philanthropy.

If you were a young (white) woman looking for work in the early 1920s, you could do worse than becoming a telephone operator.

In the early 1920s, AT&T, the telephone monopoly that grew out of […]

In Brief: How AI Could Shrink Government

In Brief: How AI Could Shrink Government

Shrinking government is one of the hardest tasks on planet earth. That’s why it rarely happens. But Lewis Andrews argues that artificial intelligence (AI) might just do the trick. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led many observers to worry that computers will soon replace far more jobs than imagined just a few years ago. The World Economic Forum now predicts that over 85 million positions could be lost to automation by the year 2025, many in law, medicine, accounting and other fields once thought immune to electronic substitution. Industry experts like IBM CEO Arvind Krishna argue that the […]

How easy is it to detect AI-generated content?

How easy is it to detect AI-generated content?

By Bidisha Saha : The tally of the number of jobs threatened by the world-changing generative AI technology depends on whether the GPT with human intelligence makes you more productive – or obsolete.

It is not surprising anymore if you come across a tweet, essay, or news article and wonder if it was written by artificial intelligence software. There are doubts regarding the authorship of a given piece of writing, like in academic context, employment, or the veracity of the content. Similarly, there are questions about the authenticity of the information, i.e., if a misleading idea suddenly appears in posts […]

75 Artificial Intelligence Adoption Statistics [Updated for 2023]

75 Artificial Intelligence Adoption Statistics [Updated for 2023]

Artificial Intelligence, AI, is a study in computer science involved in creating machines that can match humans in specific tasks. These machines perform like humans. Robots, automated vehicles, and virtual and digital assistants are examples of machines that behave like humans. They can be utilized to yield great success in Manufacturing Industries, healthcare, education, and every other Industry.

While statistics in Artificial Intelligence are occasionally altering, here are the most important ones to know in 2023. Interesting AI Adoption Statistics for 2023

The current Artificial Intelligence (AI) facts are as follows: The global Artificial Intelligence market in 2022 was $136.6 […]

The Bot Brief

The Bot Brief

"There is no force on earth more powerful than an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo

Bots in The News:

With terrible domestic and Japanese markets last week, the Bot Index experienced only three gainers for the week. Amazon demonstrated the only real gain, at 3%, while Apple and Lockheed Martin were up fractionally. As a result, the Bots fell 3.50% while the general market was off 1.39%. Amazon’s gain was attributed to considerable ‘noise’ surrounding the company’s use of AI in corporate strategies involving cloud-based computing and storage.NIO Inc. was the sole double-digit decliner with a 10.32% […]

Rise of the robots raises a big question: what will workers do?

Rise of the robots raises a big question: what will workers do?

A ‘robot whisperer’ walks among the ‘ants’ at Active Ants’ e-fulfilment centre in Northampton. ith a low electrical hum, a small team of boxy, wheeled robots called “ants” criss-cross the top of a giant 3D grid of grey storage crates – 60,000 of them – ceaselessly arranging and rearranging them to order.

Down on the warehouse floor, flat-topped “ranger” robots ferry cardboard packing boxes around. Just one man, jokingly known as the robot whisperer, walks among them with a laptop.

It would be hard to conceive of a more vivid example of robots taking on human jobs.“As robot technology advances, we […]

AI-Fueled Job Displacement Anxiety Triggers Tax Code Scrutiny

AI-Fueled Job Displacement Anxiety Triggers Tax Code Scrutiny

A visitor at Intel’s Artificial Intelligence Day walks past a signboard during the event in Bangalore, India, on April 4, 2017. Economists sound alarm over tax incentives favoring automation

Republicans push for provision aiding capital investment

Renewed Congressional interest in artificial intelligence’s impact on jobs is spurring new hope that lawmakers will address concerns that the tax code favors automation.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has scheduled a series of briefings on AI as lawmakers attempt to understand the technology’s developments and capabilities, and find ways to regulate its use.But some economists say the tax code can also serve […]