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‘Jobs will go to robots whether we have immigration or not’: Jacob Rees-Mogg rejects claims that British businesses will turn to Artificial Intelligence after Brexit when they can’t recruit from EU

'Jobs will go to robots whether we have immigration or not': Jacob Rees-Mogg rejects claims that British businesses will turn to Artificial Intelligence after Brexit when they can't recruit from EU

Jacob Rees-Mogg has rejected claims that a potential lack of EU workers after Brexit will result in jobs being filled by artificial intelligence.

During an episode of Panorama set to air tonight the Conservative MP said that we shouldn’t be ‘frightened of mechanisation’.

He said: ‘Those jobs will go to robots whether we have immigration or not. That immigration is not the issue around technological development, technological development, artificial intelligence, mechanisation, is all happening and that will carry on.’ Jacob Rees-Mogg rejected claims that a potential lack of EU workers after Brexit will result in jobs being filled by artificial intelligence […]

Amazon And The Future Of Retail

Amazon has started to move towards bricks and mortar in recent times. Their flagship Go Store, which opened this year in Seattle, may be a sign of things to come, particularly for retailers looking to add more value for their customers

Much has been written and discussed in the media in recent times about how AI and automation are transforming businesses and the way we work. Nowhere is this more evident than with one of the biggest retail companies currently in the world, Amazon.

Of course, this particular retail giant has been at the forefront of innovation ever since it […]

Bargaining with Robots

Bargaining with Robots

Anew article faith has lately been added to Silicon Valley’s reigning doctrine, alongside the abomination of neckties and the eminence of Burning Man: the idea that everybody should receive a “universal basic income,” a substantial, regular stipend for being alive. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have championed it, and even Barack Obama, while a sitting president, suggested that such payouts may soon be necessary. The cause for this, we’re told, is automation. Robots and artificial intelligence are advancing to such a degree that millions of jobs will soon disappear, never to return. The ancient link between employment and income […]

Bargaining with Robots

Bargaining with Robots

Anew article faith has lately been added to Silicon Valley’s reigning doctrine, alongside the abomination of neckties and the eminence of Burning Man: the idea that everybody should receive a “universal basic income,” a substantial, regular stipend for being alive. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have championed it, and even Barack Obama, while a sitting president, suggested that such payouts may soon be necessary. The cause for this, we’re told, is automation. Robots and artificial intelligence are advancing to such a degree that millions of jobs will soon disappear, never to return. The ancient link between employment and income […]

Meet the fast food worker who never needs a day off

Meet the fast food worker who never needs a day off

Miso Robotics The concern that robots will take jobs is thrust back into the spotlight after a California-based burger chain has “hired” Flippy to be its latest grill cook.

According to KTLA-5, which was there for a preview event, Flippy is helping out Caliburger make California-style burgers and fries, providing a level of consistency to its cooked food.

“The key to success in the restaurant industry is consistency,” said John Miller, CEO of Cali Group, the company that runs the chain. “So anytime you go to a Caliburger anywhere, you know that the patty will be cooked exactly the same.”The […]

Meet Flippy the burger flipper, the solution to the minimum wage

Meet Flippy the burger flipper, the solution to the minimum wage

Caliburger , a fast food chain with an outlet in Pasadena, Calif., is now using a robot to cook their burgers. It’s called, in an outburst of inventiveness, Flippy. This is just what happens with a minimum wage: the incentive to automate is increased and thus workers lose their jobs.

Of course, every business tries to automate as much of its processes as it can. Who wants to pay wages when they don’t have to? The point is that robots, just machines, have costs. So too does a robot’s human substitute. Whether to automate depends upon the relative costs of […]

Facing a New Industrial Revolution – Alex Cook

Facing a New Industrial Revolution – Alex Cook

Right now, we might be in the midst of the biggest industrial revolution in human history. New research from Oxford University suggests that more than half of the jobs we’re doing now could be done by robots or computers within the next 20 years. Respected Chinese technologist Kai Fu Lee believes this could even happen within the next decade.

Meanwhile, most jobs which require a desk and a computer can now be outsourced to cheaper workers overseas. Christian employees reading about these developments fear a job market which may soon have no room for them. And Christian business owners will […]

Meet Flippy, the job-killing, burger flipping robot

Meet Flippy, the job-killing, burger flipping robot

The concern that robots will take jobs is thrust back into the spotlight after a California-based burger chain has "hired" Flippy to be its latest grill cook.

According to KTLA-5 , which was there for a preview event, Flippy is helping out Caliburger make California-style burgers and fries, providing a level of consistency to its cooked food.

"The key to success in the restaurant industry is consistency," said John Miller, CEO of Cali Group, the company that runs the chain. "So anytime you go to a Caliburger anywhere you know that the patty will be cooked exactly the same."The robot is […]

Opinion: Robots help close the gap between designing and making

Opinion: Robots help close the gap between designing and making

Andrew Watts, CEO Newtecnic , discusses the construction industry’s move towards robotics and mass-customization that brings designers and makers together for positive disruption within and beyond the industry

Digitalization, robotics and automation, have produced significant quality and productivity benefits in manufacturing over several decades.

In construction, however, while digitalization has very successfully automated design, the disconnect between designing and making is ripe for an industrial revolution.And while innovative product manufacturers use technology to move from mass-production to mass-customization, the construction industry is only just picking up on DfMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) for repetitive mass production of […]

Robots, humans of the future

Robots, humans of the future

Ineffective and harmful policies

What, exactly, is robotics? For those unaware of the term, robotics is basically an interdisciplinary branch belonging to engineering and science inclusive of mechanics, electrical and computer science, etc. Robotics is concerned with the designing, construction, operations and the applicability of robots in the field. In addition to the above information, it manages computer systems for control purposes, sensory feedback and information processing of the robots.

The said technologies assist in developing machines to be substituted for humans and entirely replicate human actions respectively. Robots can be put into service for a multitude of situations […]