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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 […]

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 […]

1/OK, let us talk about robots and jobs, once again!

1/OK, let us talk about robots and jobs, once again!

Andrew Yang is a good guy, and I like a number of his ideas (including UBI and VAT). But on the threat of automation, the math just doesn’t check out. Here is why:

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2/First piece of evidence that robots aren’t currently taking human jobs overall: Employment levels are high right now. Prime-age employment rates are at or above their peaks in the mid-2000s and late-80s booms. 3/But what about wages??Well, real median weekly earnings are going up, for the first time in a long time. 6/Piece of evidence #4: All of the countries with lots of industrial robots […]

Should we devise and adopt an economic model which seeks low employment rather than full…

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Should we devise and adopt an economic model which seeks low employment rather than full employment? We surely need to take advantage of AI and automation to REDUCE work not use it to increase growth and damage the environment. Impact of Technology in Organizations

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are two significant fields of technology advancements that enable a machine to think and act like a human being. These technologies are associated with many advantages, is job creation, increased productivity, as well as time-saving. Answer and Explanation: It would be better to plan and adopt […]

Fourth Industrial Revolution and (unwarranted) pessimism over jobs

Fourth Industrial Revolution and (unwarranted) pessimism over jobs

Ever since Homo erectus carved a piece of stone into a tool, the welfare of our species has been on the increase. Indeed, this technological breakthrough led first to the hand axe and eventually to the iPhone. We have found it convenient to organise the most dramatic period of change between these inventions into four industrial revolutions.

As each revolution unfolded, dire predictions of massive job losses ensued, increasing with each. The first three are over and these concerns were clearly misplaced. The number of jobs increased each time, as did living standards and every other social indicator.

McKinsey predicts that […]

Listen to OZY’s New Podcast About the Future of the Workplace

Listen to OZY’s New Podcast About the Future of the Workplace

In a new five-part podcast, The Future of X: The Workplace , in partnership with Smartsheet, OZY paints a picture of the workplace to come, from productivity and privacy to social enterprise and the rise of gamification. Listen up on OZY.com , Spotify , Apple or wherever you prefer to stream your audio.

You’ve heard the horror stories. Humans, as a future workforce, are facing extinction. The robots are coming! No job is safe! The prospect of this kind of impending robot revolution can seem daunting.

Fifty years from now, machine learning and artificial intelligence will interact with our lives […]

We’d Better Be Ready To Rethink The Meaning Of Work, Because Things Are Changing Fast

We’d Better Be Ready To Rethink The Meaning Of Work, Because Things Are Changing Fast

Ford assembly line (1913) Author unknown – Public Domain One of the topics I explore in my new book, “ Viviendo en el futuro ” (“Living in the future”, hopefully soon to be published in English) is the rapidly changing nature of work: within a few years so many jobs we have become used to over the last century will disappear as we automate more and more tasks.

Take supermarket cashiers: soon, they will soon join the ranks of workers no longer needed on assembly lines such as the one above from a 1913 Ford plant, the prototype of dehumanizing […]

Automating A Job Reddit

Automated underwriting software allows workers to process applications more quickly than before, reducing the need for as many underwriters. The automated, hyper-efficient shop floors of modern manufacturing won’t give Trump much room to deliver on his outsized promises to bring back millions of jobs for his blue-collar supporters. Scripting custom tools to automate material layouts and cost estimates while creating a scale diagram to add to the construction documents for installers. #HBO #VICEonHBO Subscribe to the. Feb 25, 2018 · How To Automation-Proof Your Career. A resume parser cuts your resume into smaller chunks and then categorizes these into […]