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Bid to Revive U.S. Solar Factories Runs Into Familiar Job-Killer

Bid to Revive U.S. Solar Factories Runs Into Familiar Job-Killer

Suniva seeking import tariffs in bid to boost solar jobs

Automated new factories unlikely to require armies of workers

A bankrupt Georgia company is pushing to revive U.S. solar manufacturing with a trade case that’s headed for the president’s desk. The simmering dispute from Suniva Inc. stands a good chance of leading to import tariffs, but don’t expect that to bring the jobs back.While at least six Asian solar companies say the prospect of trade barriers has them weighing the idea of opening factories in the U.S., they’re likely considering highly automated facilities that won’t need armies […]

NTT Data Executive Reports Robots are Empowering Humans in the Workplace

Doug Reeder Innovation Leader at NTT DATA Services Virtual agents, virtual assistants, bots, and other automated technologies are supercharging workforces, said Doug Reeder, innovation leader at NTT DATA Services.

These technologies easily execute tasks that are mundane and repetitive, Reeder said.

“They allow people to do less of the mundane things,” he said.Reeder delivered the keynote address Thursday morning at the InnoTech Austin conference at the Austin Convention Center.Automation isn’t about displacing humans, but it’s about making them more productive by taking away labor’s most repetitive and time-consuming tasks, Reeder said.“Don’t automate anything that isn’t highly efficient in the first instance,” […]

AI and The Future of Work

AI and The Future of Work

Artificial Intelligence will have a profound effect on the way people work, and will almost certainly also impact the availability of jobs and distribution of income. But a number of leading technologists and economists speaking at a conference on AI and the Future of Work —presented by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and its Initiative on the Digital Economy—earlier this month suggested that the changes may not be as rapid or as unusual as is popularly suggested, which is very different from much of what I hear at typical technology conferences.

MIT President Rafael Reif, who opened […]

How the Robot Revolution Could Create 21 Million Jobs

How the Robot Revolution Could Create 21 Million Jobs

Human and robot work together on a chain saw production line. With robots on the march, many tech visionaries foresee a world without jobs. The advance of artificial intelligence and automation, they say, will make much of the work people do obsolete. Some entrepreneurs such as Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk predict so little human work will be left that a universal social-safety net will be needed to maintain economic order.

Now, a sunnier employment picture is coming into focus. At least 21 new job categories may soon emerge from technological and other societal changes, says a new report […]

Data skills could improve employment options as AI accelerates

Data skills could improve employment options as AI accelerates

Data sharing and data within digital literacy were among the subjects addressed by expert witnesses during the second House of Lords select committee hearing on artificial intelligence ( AI ). Watch out – artificial intelligence (AI) is going to steal your job!

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Bill Gates Thinks Tech Could Make Inequality Worse. But He Has Faith in Robots

Bill Gates Thinks Tech Could Make Inequality Worse. But He Has Faith in Robots

Inequality is getting worse and, according to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, technology is only going to exacerbate the situation.

“If we’re not careful, technology will actually accentuate the difference between the well off and the poor because if it’s expensive, if you learn about it only in a rich country school, then you’ll have the difference between the well off and the poor people even worse,” Gates said Tuesday at the Misk Global Forum in Riyadh, according to CNBC .

However, he expressed enthusiasm for the potential of artificial intelligence to help humanity “take on all of the top problems.”Yes, robots […]

ILR expert talks on the future of work to D.C. policymakers

ILR expert talks on the future of work to D.C. policymakers

Louis Hyman, associate professor of economic history in the ILR School, speaks to policymakers at the Rayburn House Building in Washington, D.C. Technological advancement is not new in the American economy, but it is novel that workers can achieve productivity through digital platforms outside of corporations, said Louis Hyman.

Hyman, associate professor of economic history in the ILR School and director of the Institute for Workplace Studies , spoke to policymakers in Washington, D.C., Nov. 13 in a briefing sponsored by the National History Center. The briefing focused on how technological innovation is transforming work, and how insights from the […]

GEORGE: The Robots are coming

GEORGE: The Robots are coming

(CHRIS GEORGE / iNFOnews.ca) OPINION

Welcome to the information revolution. The utopia of automated production is upon us.

The long foreseen golden age, where people’s material needs will be served by machines, where the planet will become a garden, and each person will be free to spend their time creating great works of art and exploring their human potential.But first, the Puritan work ethic must die."What do you do?" Over the past two and a half centuries, this question has come to dominate our social relationships. The industrial revolution saw the majority of people go from being tied to the […]

Former Google China President Says AI Will Take Over Jobs Sooner Than Expected

Former Google China President Says AI Will Take Over Jobs Sooner Than Expected

An Inevitable Takeover?

There are those who believe it’s inevitable that artificial intelligence (AI) will take over many jobs currently held by human employees. In some industries, this trend has already begun, and experts have predicted we’ll see an uptick in intelligent automation over the next decade. Former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee believes the “takeover” by intelligent machines will happen even sooner.

Speaking on CNBC’ s “Squawk Box” on November 13, Lee said that half of all human jobs will be taken over by AI within the next decade, marking the fastest period of disruption in history. “AI, at […]

Old Employment Paradigm vs New Automation Era

This is a comment from another post but I thought it could be used as a post too 🙂

I’m not an expert, english is not my primary language and I’m just hoping to learn more about economy…

1º Full Employment but Less Labor Compensation and less hours:BUTANDWHY? When a company aims to increase their profits they can invest on capital to reduce labor costs, for example buying robots/algorithms and firing people. On the other hand there’s not gold linked money supply that allows a lot of new complex activities and investments making posible new companies to rise […]