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How Will Automation, AI Impact Healthcare Employment?

How Will Automation, AI Impact Healthcare Employment?

Source: Thinkstock The report, titled Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places , looks back at how automation impacted the workforce from the 1980s to 2016 and offers projections on how new automation and artificial intelligence (AI) tools will affect the economy by 2030.

“The next phase of automation, increasingly involving AI, seems like it should be manageable in the aggregate labor market, though there are many sources of uncertainty,” Mark Muro, Senior Fellow and lead author of the report, stated in a press release . “With that said, the potential effects will vary significantly across […]

Selling Canadians on the idea of a guaranteed basic income

Selling Canadians on the idea of a guaranteed basic income

Statistics suggest Canadians want a different approach to guaranteed income before they lend their support, writes Marc Zwelling.

Utopians often imagined a world without jobs. Some hoped automation would bring a leisure society. Some were afraid machines would do all our work and leave us impoverished.

Canadians are suspicious of technological progress. In a 1983 Decima Research poll 72 per cent agreed automation will lead to "high unemployment." In a 2016 Angus Reid Institute poll, 63 per cent agreed "new technology is likely to eliminate more jobs than it creates."Abacus Data asked about the impact of artificial intelligence and automation […]

With its ‘lights-off factory’, iPhone manufacturer Foxconn leads in Industry 4.0

With its ‘lights-off factory’, iPhone manufacturer Foxconn leads in Industry 4.0

Shanghai-listed Foxconn Industrial Internet Co Ltd (FII), a unit of Apple’s largest manufacturing contractor Foxconn, said its “lights-off ” factory has received recognition at the World Economic Forum this month. The company’s Shenzen plant made it onto a shortlist of “state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities that serve as world leaders” in how to successfully adopt and integrate cutting-edge technologies, according to WEF.

Lights-off factories are highly automated and make use of robots in the production line, hence requiring less light – and perhaps more importantly, less human workers. Foxconn is expected to slash tens of thousands of jobs as it moves forward […]

Irish people feel almost certain that large scale job automation is coming

Irish people feel almost certain that large scale job automation is coming

Ninety four percent of Irish people believe that large scale job automation will occur at some point in the future, with 46% predicting this eventuality will come to pass in the very near future.

This is according to a study by iReach. The nationally representative survey of 1001 people found that no such certainty is apparent when considering the consequences either positive or negative of such automation.

When thinking about the impact of job automation on the productivity and prosperity of the Irish economy, 55% view it as a positive, with those who view the impact as a negative slightly further […]

Automation threatens a quarter United States jobs by 2030

Automation threatens a quarter United States jobs by 2030

For many sectors of the USA economy, the future of work is automation. Though the United States is in the middle of its second-longest expansion in history, and jobs data suggest that the economy remains healthy, many business leaders and economists have suggested in surveys that the United States could slip into a recession in 2020. "Similarly, the productivity and wage gains brought by automation can result in workers having more disposable income, which increases consumption and hence employment in other industries".

But with new advances in artificial intelligence, it’s not just industrial and warehouse robots that will alter the […]

How can you prepare for the future of work? The answer is not “learn to code.”

How can you prepare for the future of work? The answer is not “learn to code.”

Cover of Ellen Shell’s new book The Job. On the latest episode of Recode Decode , journalist and Boston University professor Ellen Shell joined Recode’s Kara Swisher in studio to talk about her latest book, The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change .

Shell explained why some of the conventional wisdom about the future of work is misguided and offered pragmatic advice for people entering an increasingly automated job market. She warned that the most at-risk jobs are “mid-skill” ones that are expensive for employers, which includes most software developers.

“It’s not necessarily the low-level routine […]

Automation Will Replace Production, Food, and Transportation Jobs First

Automation Will Replace Production, Food, and Transportation Jobs First

The benefits of automation, and the detriments, will be unevenly shared. That’s because different jobs, regions, and groups of people will have varying degrees of susceptibility to job displacement, according to a new paper from the researchers at the Brookings Institute .

Production, food service, and transportation jobs appear to be the most susceptible to the trend, with between 70 and 100 percent of their tasks likely to be automated. On the other end of the spectrum? Business jobs, a fact that’s sure to be a huge relief to the business executives who recently gathered to discuss the problem of […]

It Turns Out That Socialism is Very Popular in America

It Turns Out That Socialism is Very Popular in America

Above: Democratic Socialists of America protest in Washington, DC (Credit: Washington.carpe-diem.events) The following is part one of a two-part essay on the reasons for the growth of Socialism in 2010s America . Above: Residents protest evictions in San Francisco, where Sillicon Valley’s gentrification has resulted in skyrocketing housing costs and growing homelessness (credit: Zelda Bronstein, The Nation /Ted Gullicksen, Antievictionmappingproject.net).

One out of three millennials in Donald Trump’s America embrace socialism . That number rises to nearly half of all millennial Democrats. More millennials voted for Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic Socialist, in the 2016 Democratic primaries than for Hillary […]

Commission: Put People First in Drive to Automate Jobs

Commission: Put People First in Drive to Automate Jobs

FILE – Robots work on the cab of a 2019 Ram pickup at the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Sterling Heights, Mich., Oct. 22, 2018. Manufacturing is one are where robots are part of the workforce. GENEVA —

The world of work is going through a major transformation. Technological advances are creating new jobs and at the same time leaving many people behind as their skills are no longer needed. A new study by the International Labor Organization’s Global Commission on the Future of Work addresses the many uncertainties arising from this new reality.

The International Labor Organization […]

Automation is a bigger threat, depending on race, education and where you live, among other factors

Automation is a bigger threat, depending on race, education and where you live, among other factors

Is a robot coming for your job?

That is more likely for Californians who work in Riverside, San Bernardino, Merced or Modesto, according to a report released Thursday by the Brookings Institution. Those who live in San Francisco or San Jose have a better chance of weathering a coming onslaught of automation and artificial intelligence.

The new study by the Washington think tank suggests that intelligent machines may well take over many more tasks from humans in the future. But it forecasts dramatic differences among cities, occupations, ethnic and racial groups, educational levels and age groups.“California turns out to have super-stark […]