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Automation ‘a threat to 60,000 Northern Ireland jobs’

Automation ‘a threat to 60,000 Northern Ireland jobs’

By Una Murphy

When Peggy Seeger sang that she wanted “to be an engineer” she was hitting the right note.

Engineers are NOT among the 60,000 people in Northern Ireland expected to lose their jobs due to the impact of automation, according to a new report by the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI).It is one of the best jobs to be employed at because as a ‘non-routine, abstract/cognitive high skilled occupation, it is less likely to be affected by automation technologies.Carers and people working in leisure jobs are also less likely to be replaced by robots however they still face […]

Minimum Wage Boosts Are Great—For Robots

Minimum Wage Boosts Are Great—For Robots

In recent weeks, Illinois mandated a huge increase in the state minimum wage, Pennsylvania’s governor proposed to double his state’s minimum wage, and New Mexico lawmakers moved forward with a plan to raise the minimum wage there, too. Hiking the cost of labor is a popular cause once again—even among people who’ve demonstrated in the past that they know perfectly well this is a recipe for limiting opportunity and trapping people in poverty.

It’s tempting to say that people are actually getting stupider about economics. But maybe, instead, it’s all part of a conspiracy by robots who are poised to […]

Are Robots Competing for Your Job?

Are Robots Competing for Your Job?

Doomsayers insist that this time the employment apocalypse is really nigh. The robots are coming. Hide the WD-40. Lock up your nine-volt batteries. Build a booby trap out of giant magnets; dig a moat as deep as a grave. “Ever since a study by the University of Oxford predicted that 47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of being replaced by robots and artificial intelligence over the next fifteen to twenty years, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the future of work,” Andrés Oppenheimer writes, in “The Robots Are Coming: The Future of Jobs in the […]

Maritime automation will not spare seafarers

Maritime automation will not spare seafarers

Humans have a tenuous relationship with automation. On balance, we love it. It has made our lives easier. Freed up time for leisure. Freed up time for thinking … about more automation. Progressively, we have made automation cleverer. First, we armed it with simple decision trees, then with supervised reasoning, until we arrived at self-learning mathematical algorithms. Along the way, automation equipped with artificial intelligence allowed us to eliminate human efforts all around.

To put it in perspective, we started with replacing elevator operators with buttons and self-locking doors. We arrived at autonomous cars making better driving decisions than humans […]

Can Artificial Intelligence Steal your Job? Perhaps Not Rather Modify

Can Artificial Intelligence Steal your Job? Perhaps Not Rather Modify

Though some forms of AI shows its cleverness, it would be impractical to assume that current AI counterparts human intelligence.

If the murmur around Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made you nervous that it will soon displace your job as the technology works more promptly than human brain. But the truth is that AI actually empowers workers to centre on higher-level thinking and crafting. This is not a hindrance; rather it is needed for a workplace. Currently, AI is providing human intelligence all over the continuum from banking to media.

AI consists of software tools which are used to solve problems. […]

Ready to work with a smart robot? Some Dayton workers already are

Ready to work with a smart robot? Some Dayton workers already are

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and automation presents threats — and opportunities — for workers and businesses in the Miami Valley.

More than 31,600 people in the Dayton metro area work in the five largest occupations at high risk of automation, according to data the Brookings Institution prepared exclusively for the Dayton Daily News. Those jobs include food preparation, waiters, stock clerks, tractor-trailer truck drivers and accounting clerks.

But about 34,600 people in the region that includes Montgomery, Greene and Miami counties work in the largest low-risk occupations. Those include registered nurses, freight and stock movers, janitors, customer service representatives […]

Automation and what it means for jobs and new skills in SA

Automation and what it means for jobs and new skills in SA

The world as we know it is on the brink of a revolution, driven by emerging technologies that are set to fundamentally alter our lives in unprecedented and unanticipated ways, says Tebogo Moalusi , industrial relations director at Workforce Staffing.

This shift to Industry 4.0, also known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, hinges off the increasing pervasiveness of digitisation.

As machines become more ‘intelligent’ and capable of learning, they are able to perform more and more tasks that were previously not possible. While this opens up many possibilities, it also means that the job landscape will become a very different place.As […]

Experts: Kokomo highly susceptible to automation, but not time to panic

Experts: Kokomo highly susceptible to automation, but not time to panic

Northwestern High School senior Joe Johns is one of 20 high school students from around central Indiana who spent 12 weeks at one of the Kokomo area’s Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plants learning about manufacturing. Tim Bath | Kokomo Tribune A national report has found that Kokomo is the second-most susceptible metro area in the U.S. to potential automation, with more than a third of the city’s jobs considered to be at high automation risk.

But while those statistics, published last month by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, a D.C.-based nonprofit organization, tell an alarming story at first glance, researchers say […]

Is automation coming for Cincinnati jobs?

Is automation coming for Cincinnati jobs?

Julie Heath is the director of University of Cincinnati Economics Center at the College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services. She also holds the Alpaugh Family Chair in Economics. (Photo11: JP Leong) The alarm has been sounding for a few years about the coming robot invasion and the jobs that will be displaced by automation.

Has it matched the hype? And what does it mean for the local labor market?

The effect of automation on labor markets is more nuanced than a robot-for-worker exchange. In some cases, automation can replace workers, but total substitution is not the norm. It is […]

National Leader In Manufacturer Highlights Need For Workers, Immigration During Iowa Visit

National Leader In Manufacturer Highlights Need For Workers, Immigration During Iowa Visit

View Slideshow 1 of 3 Kirkwood’s Industrial Technologies Dean Dan Martin shows off one of the school’s manufacturing training labs to college president Lori Sundberg and Jay Timmons, CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers.

The head of a U.S. manufacturing group highlighted the need for workers and immigration reform during a visit to Iowa.

Job retraining and immigration reform could help fill more positions in Iowa; those were some of the messages from the head of the National Association of Manufacturers.Staffers with NAM made stops at Sukup Manufacturing, a grain bin and metal building company in Sheffield, and […]