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re:MARS Attendee Notes Future Job Loss from Automation and A.I.

re:MARS Attendee Notes Future Job Loss from Automation and A.I.

There has been a lot of tech news coming out of Amazon’s inaugural re:MARS event in Las Vegas last week, some already noted here ( Jeff Bezos Predicts Advanced Robot Hands in a Decade ).

Below, billionaire Amazon owner Jeff Bezos chats up technology at his re:MARS conference. Many reports from attendees centered around all the sparkly new automation and A.I. advances, so it was a relief to find one that addressed the coming threat to human employment from smart machines. Author Kyle Wiggers (linked below) even included a list of dire predictions near the end of his article, […]

‘It was bound to happen’: Machines are coming to the Vegas Strip — and they may take jobs

'It was bound to happen': Machines are coming to the Vegas Strip — and they may take jobs

Ford wants to use walking robots to help self-driving cars deliver packages. USA TODAY

LAS VEGAS – The coming of the machines is inevitable. And this city knows it.

MGM Resorts International this year plans to install at Las Vegas resorts an unknown number of automated beverage systems programmed to mix hundreds of different drinks – all at the touch of a button.It’s a job that for many years depended on the hands of living, breathing service workers. But as the incoming technology moves closer to Southern Nevada casinos, rank-and-file union workers can’t say for certain whether machines will force them […]

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 8)

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 8)

Inside the Amazon Warehouse Where Humans and Machines Become One
Matt Simon | Wired
“Seen from above, the scale of the system is dizzying. My robot, a little orange slab known as a ‘drive’ (or more formally and mythically, Pegasus), is just one of hundreds of its kind swarming a 125,000-square-foot ‘field’ pockmarked with chutes. It’s a symphony of electric whirring, with robots pausing for one another at intersections and delivering their packages to the slides.”

Top Oxford Researcher Talks the Risk of Automation to Employment Luke Dormehl | Digital Trends “[Karl Benedict Frey’s] new […]

The Indignity of Universal Basic Income

The Indignity of Universal Basic Income

There is an increasing push to implement some form of Universal Basic Income (UBI), especially among tech elites who believe that advances in robotics and artificial intelligence will bring about mass technologically-driven unemployment. Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, is running for president on the belief that a UBI will resolve many of the woes of the losers of economic transition in recent decades. There is something to be said for the idea of UBI as a more efficient replacement for today’s bureaucratic welfare systems. And if it were somehow feasible, it would certainly attest to the […]

Ireland PANIC: Dublin admits Ireland ‘second biggest losers’ after Brexit

Ireland PANIC: Dublin admits Ireland ‘second biggest losers’ after Brexit

Paschal Donohoe said Dublin will be the “second biggest losers” after the UK should Britain leave the EU without a deal. He said should Britain walk away without a deal, also called a hard Brexit, Ireland will also be impacted “given the level of interconnectivity that exists between the two islands”, the Irish Times reports. He said: “The projections of my own Department of Finance indicate that the real output of the Irish economy would be of a magnitude of five percentage points lower than it otherwise would be. Trump SNUB: Irish deputy BOYCOTTS Trump visit – ‘Real work […]

The Indignity of Universal Basic Income

The Indignity of Universal Basic Income

There is an increasing push to implement some form of Universal Basic Income (UBI), especially among tech elites who believe that advances in robotics and artificial intelligence will bring about mass technologically-driven unemployment. Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, is running for president on the belief that a UBI will resolve many of the woes of the losers of economic transition in recent decades. There is something to be said for the idea of UBI as a more efficient replacement for today’s bureaucratic welfare systems. And if it were somehow feasible, it would certainly attest to the […]

Brexit could speed up the rise of the robots in Wales

Brexit could speed up the rise of the robots in Wales

Robot assembling a car. Picture by Steve Jurvetson (CC BY 2.0) Keith Darlington, retired university lecturer in AI

There is widespread agreement on both sides of the political divide that Brexit has become a huge distraction that is eating away at the body politic. One of its consequences is that other important issues are getting scant attention.

One of those is robotics. According to one think tank, almost one in four jobs could be lost in Welsh cities to robotics by the year 2030.These figures could turn out to be worse because, in a week when Ford has announced the […]

Women Face Job Loss from Automation

Women Face Job Loss from Automation

This is a somewhat curious article from the Wall Street Journal because of course women will lose employment when automation takes hold since many millions of women work. The piece uses a new McKinsey study, The Future of Women at Work , that specifically notes, “ Women and men face a similar scale of potential job losses and gains, but in different areas.”

So the focus on women does supply a specific sub-topic of automation to explore.

Robot sales continue to rise, so there is no sign of the smart machine wave disappearing. In fact, when machines become cheaper than workers […]

How Women Can Advance In The Highly Automated Workplace Of The Future

How Women Can Advance In The Highly Automated Workplace Of The Future

There is potential for women to advance in the workplace if they are prepared for a more automated future. (Photo credit: Getty) Getty

The bots are coming. Automation is already starting to replace jobs. Robots and computers are not only taking over routine physical work activities, but they can now tackle more complicated tasks like driving and sensing emotions. And they’re cheaper than humans too. As a result, research suggests that about half of the work humans currently do will be automated by 2055. But how will female employees fare in our automated future? A new McKinsey study found that […]

Automation is Here. How Are You Leveraging It?

Automation is Here. How Are You Leveraging It?

Automation Technology 5558c5b706074 CPA firms are in the midst of a transition. For years, research firms and thought leaders have been predicting the disruption of the profession through automation. That disruption isn’t a vision for the future – it’s here now. In 2017, Gartner has forecast a transition period, lasting through 2020, in which AI would eliminate 1.8 million jobs. However, it also predicted the creation of 2.3 million jobs.

Currently, technology is creating ever-expanding opportunities for automation in accounting firms and changing the expectations of clients, employees and partners. So right now, we need to decide how we will […]