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How do you tax a robot, Mr. Gates?

How do you tax a robot, Mr. Gates?

Bill Gates may favour a tax on robots that devour human jobs. But isn’t Microsoft too arguably a robot by that definition? | Flickr / Stephen Chin Luddites had humanity’s best interests at heart. So does Bill Gates. And with his statement urging taxation of robots to slow down pace of automation, he has proven himself to be a modern-day Luddite. His ideas on robots will, hopefully for the sake of humanity, meet with the same fate that Luddites’ did.

There is little doubt that automation will destroy jobs in sectors ranging from transport to finance . This is a […]

Abolish Work, The Robots Are Coming!

Abolish Work, The Robots Are Coming!

Photo courtesy of NBC.com

We Czechs enjoy judging whether someone has worked ‘enough’ and relegating those who have not to the unenviable position of despicable filth. It is ridiculous. In actual fact, we are running an absurd race to the bottom, competing with one another to be ripped off. Our wages are already laughably low . Now the threat of widespread job loss due to the automation of work looms on the horizon. The Czech Republic will be one of the countries which will suffer most from the replacement of human labour with robots. This should be reason enough to […]

Closing US Manufacturing Trade Deficit Would Create 1.3 Million Jobs

Closing US Manufacturing Trade Deficit Would Create 1.3 Million Jobs

Report Shows How Boosting Productivity Is a Key to Revival

Sharelines The prevailing narrative says automation was the main culprit behind US manufacturing job losses in the early 2000s, and that automation is now powering an unprecedented manufacturing technology revolution that will continue to displace jobs. But a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) finds that both of these claims are false.

ITIF, a leading tech-policy think tank, finds that trade pressure and faltering US competitiveness were responsible for more than two-thirds of the 5.7 million manufacturing jobs lost between 2000 and 2010. And rather than […]

Will US Workers Have Right Skills for Jobs of the Future?

Will US Workers Have Right Skills for Jobs of the Future?

President Donald Trump arrives to hold a meeting with manufacturing CEOs at the White House in Washington, Feb. 23, 2017. WASHINGTON —

President Donald Trump told the heads of more than 20 of the largest U.S. manufacturers Thursday that he planned to bring millions of factory jobs back to the United States.

Trump said the United States had lost one-third of its manufacturing jobs since the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed, and that 70,000 American factories had closed since China joined the World Trade Organization. FILE – Arms from a robotic welder simulate welds on a piece of metal […]

Elon Musk, Bill Gates Warn About Robots Taking Over Jobs, But Study Says People Aren’t Worried

Elon Musk, Bill Gates Warn About Robots Taking Over Jobs, But Study Says People Aren't Worried

Recently, tech leaders including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and billionaire Bill Gates warned about robots taking over jobs. However, a new report shows people are not that concerned about job automation.

The report The Robots Are Coming, But Not For Me , is based on an online survey of more than 2,000 adults commissioned by consumer engagements firm LivePerson last month.

Although experts agree robots, artificial intelligence and automated technology will have at least some effect on global economies, the majority of people think they’ll be alright but say other professionals will be affected by mass layoffs, the report found.Among those […]

The employment graphic that that may give President Trump headaches

The employment graphic that that may give President Trump headaches

Updated 10:08 a.m. today Since 2000, American manufacturing production has continued to climb, even as American manufacturing employment. Automation may explain more job losses more than trade. (Deseret Photo) If Donald Trump won the election by promising to "bring back" jobs to America’s manufacturing sector lost to overseas competition, the Trump administration may be in for a surprise when it learns how many of those jobs never "left" the country at all. They just disappeared.

Variations on this surprising data have been graphed by experts on both sides of the aisle: economist Mark J. Perry at the right-leaning American Enterprise […]

Automated Trucks Threaten Millions of US Jobs

Automated Trucks Threaten Millions of US Jobs

Self-driving vehicles are coming on strong, faster than anyone knowledgeable thought a few years ago. Self-driving vehicles are being tested for real world use, and highway laws are being rejiggered to accommodate the new tech future.

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Self-Driving Semis Hit the Road in Texas But driving is a major jobs category, as shown by the map below, taken from an interactive NPR graphic in the 2015 article Map: The Most Common Job In Every State . Millions of driving jobs still exist in the US because it’s one gig that could not be outsourced to China, […]

MALPASS | A.I. : Benefit or Hazard?

MALPASS | A.I. : Benefit or Hazard?

For decades, pop culture has been fascinated by robot servants. It always seemed so far off, having a robotic servant to help in our day to day lives. Look at the Jetsons, they needed to have stratosphere, saucer houses before they had a robot maid. It makes it strange to think that we now live in a society where robotics not only exist, but are the norm. I’m not talking about independent, Turing Test beating automata, but increasingly intelligent machines are finding their way into day-to-day life. Self-checkout registers have gone from a novelty to a familiarity in the […]

It’s time to prepare for your very own robot co-worker

It’s time to prepare for your very own robot co-worker

Forewarned is forearmed: According to the International Federation of Robotics’ report late last year, 2015 saw a whopping 15% increase in sales of units across the world, by far the highest level ever recorded for one year. — Reuters Move over humans, the robot revolution is here.

Even as a debate rages worldwide over the danger technology poses to employment rates, with Microsoft founder Bill gates recently saying that robots stealing human jobs should pay income tax, the surge in their use at workplaces seems unstoppable.

According to the International Federation of Robotics’ report late last year, 2015 saw a whopping […]

End of jobs

End of jobs

A friend, who was an office-head, once recounted a poignant story about his stenographer. A vendor had come to his office to demonstrate the use of a speech-recognition software that would allow a note to be dictated directly to the computer. After the vendor had left, the steno asked him, “Sir, does that mean my services are no longer needed?” Stenographers are no longer recruited in any office.

In 2014, a writing software called Quill was developed by an American company; it could convert numerical data into a written story, accomplishing within seconds what it took experienced analysts weeks of […]