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Is AI a Job Killer or Job Creator?

Is AI a Job Killer or Job Creator?

AI brings mixed emotions and opinions when referenced in the context of jobs. If you ask the question “Do you think Artificial Intelligence will be a net job killer or net job creator?” to colleagues, friends, or strangers you’re bound to get some very strong opinions on this subject. For sure you will hear an interesting and conflicting set of opinions that range from “AI will destroy all jobs as we know it” to “AI will enable us to work better and do new things we’ve never been able to do”. If you look at various economic and analyst […]

Nearly 9 million British jobs could be lost to AI by 2030

Rise of the robots: Nearly 9 million British jobs could be lost to AI by 2030 with workers in retail, manufacturing and business administration most at risk

Nearly nine million British jobs are at risk from robots, with those working in retail, manufacturing and business support services most at risk, figures reveal.

The rise of Artificial Intelligence is expected to see current jobs wiped out across a wide range of sectors as automation becomes cheaper than humans.In total 8,820,545 posts could be wiped out by 2030, with retail workers at the biggest risk, according to Department for Work and Pensions […]

Ghost Work and Behind the Screen, book reviews: Lifting the veil on the internet’s secret employment sector

Ghost Work and Behind the Screen, book reviews: Lifting the veil on the internet's secret employment sector

Ghost Work • By Mary L. Gray and Siddarth Suri • Houghton Mifflin • 288 pages • ISBN: 978-1-328-56624-9 • $27 The technology industry loves nothing better than to dress up something old in idealistic language and offer it up as a bright, new benefit. Flea markets existed long before eBay consolidated them into a website; clubs shared cars and friends surfed each other’s couches long before Uber and Airbnb ‘invented’ the ‘sharing economy’; and task-based employment existed for centuries before platforms like CrowdFlower, CloudFactory, and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk began touting the flexibility of on-demand micro-employment. It was known […]

Will Smart Machines Kill Jobs or Create Better Ones?

In one vision of the not-too-distant future, robots handle half of all work tasks, leaving legions of humans unemployed, uneasy and restive. In an alternate scenario, those same technologies revolutionize rather than reduce work opportunities for humans, raising living standards with new jobs that aren’t yet imagined. Such are the stakes as a new wave of automation reshapes the workplace.

Advances in artificial intelligence, or the capability of machines to learn by ingesting large amounts of data, are driving a rethink of what jobs only humans can do. A 2018 working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research found […]

5 Myths about Artificial Intelligence

5 Myths about Artificial Intelligence

When we talk about the potential perils of AI, there are a lot of opinions out there Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is competent to have a revolutionary impact on businesses globally. Talking about the information technology sector, it is no longer merely about codifying business logic. Instead, more about making tasks effortless, innovative and trouble-free. Insight is indeed the modern currency, and the pace with which we all can scale that insight is the fundamental of value creation.As per a report by Gartner, AI […]

The highest paid jobs will not be safe from automation either | Economy

The highest paid jobs will not be safe from automation either | Economy

Automation creates anguish. Seven out of 10 Americans worry that a robot or computer will take over their jobs and that is why they believe that adoption should be limited. But if so far it was noted that the most vulnerable were the lowest-paid and low-skilled productive jobs, a new study anticipates that artificial intelligence will have a greater effect than previously thought in high-skilled and well-paid office jobs.

No one is immune to the shocks of automation in employment. This is how Mark Mauro, a researcher at the Brookings Institution, expresses himself in presenting a study prepared with a […]

Are The Self-Employed At Greater Risk Of Automation, And What Can We Do About It?

Are The Self-Employed At Greater Risk Of Automation, And What Can We Do About It?

null Getty The self employed are widely viewed as being in a precarious position in a number of ways. They often lack the kind of social safety net enjoyed by salaried roles, and the job by job nature of the work can render income highly uncertain.

Now, a new study from the University of Buffalo also suggests that the self employed are more at risk of their work being automated. The paper argues that much of self-employed work is low in technical expertise and fairly routine, which places the roles at high risk of automation.

“Those who are self-employed just […]

Getting ready for the road ahead: How the future workplace will evolve

Getting ready for the road ahead: How the future workplace will evolve

The future of our jobs/careers is uncertain and nebulous. No one can see into the future and predict with any accuracy and certainty what is going to happen in the workplace, and how much robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and any other enhanced technologies that might develop, will alter it. We are all hoping it does so for the better and not for the worse!

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) developed a concept of four coloured worlds – red, yellow, blue and green – in close association with the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilisation at the Said Business School in Oxford. […]

Boris Johnson is right to delay corporation tax cuts

Boris Johnson is right to delay corporation tax cuts

Boris Johnson showed a lot of guts to go to the CBI Conference and announce that he was delaying a planned corporation tax cut in order to fund public services. This was a speech which was long overdue.

Since 2010, governments have given away corporation tax cuts worth over £60bn. This figure doesn’t include the billions of cuts in business rates and increases in capital allowances.

Governments have banked the house on the idea that if you cut taxes for business, they invest more, and that creates the growth needed to pay for good public services. But this logic simply doesn’t […]

Is the rise in Artificial Intelligence superseding human employment?

Is the rise in Artificial Intelligence superseding human employment?

This century belongs to the advancement of technology. The technology of the present era baffles human beings with its wonderful services. Invention of machines with an association of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation are the products of technology. These days amenities provided by AI are invaluable. One couldn’t contemplate in the past that one would make visible contact with one’s dear ones sitting in far-flung areas. Now even a low-income citizen can make video contact-a widespread phenomenon-withhis relatives or friends.Theexample that I have cited is a very ordinary one of the services provided by technology. However, with the rise […]