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Automation Isn’t About to Make Truckers Obsolete

Automation Isn’t About to Make Truckers Obsolete

HBR Staff/Dong Wenjie/Getty Images Hardly a day goes by without someone suggesting that technologies like AI, machine learning, and robotics will transform the 21st century labor market. A prominent example of this has been in truck driving – an occupation that spans multiples industries and moves over 70% of U.S. freight by weight — which many speculate will see a widespread loss of jobs with the rise of self-driving technology. Some have forecast that autonomous vehicles will eliminate 2-3 million trucking jobs over the next several years. But in looking at the data, we believe that, while the risk […]

UK economy has ‘too few robots’, warn MPs

UK economy has 'too few robots', warn MPs

The UK is lagging behind the world’s other advanced economies in the shift to robots and automation in the workplace – putting jobs, businesses and the prosperity of whole regions at risk, according to an influential group of MPs.

MPs on the business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS) committee said UK firms were losing out to competitors in the rest of the G7 after the government cut support for companies and failed to encourage investment.

Automation of industries from retail to manufacturing promises to revolutionise how businesses operate but also raises the threat of huge job losses as robots replace people […]

Socialism and the Self-Checkout Machine

Socialism and the Self-Checkout Machine

Shoppers head toward the self-checkout lanes at Fred Meyer. (Flickr) This month, union activists in Oregon turned in the first batch of signatures to get the Grocery Store Service and Community Protection Act on the ballot for 2020. The Act would limit grocery stores to a maximum of two self-checkout lanes at a time.

Oregon ALF-CIO president Tom Chamberlain issued a statement explaining his motivations for supporting the Act: The widescale use of self-checkout machines in our state’s grocery stores is part of a deliberate corporate strategy that relies on automation to reduce labor costs and eliminate jobs. It disproportionately […]

WILFORD: Bill De Blasio Has A Plan — To Tax Robotic Workers

WILFORD: Bill De Blasio Has A Plan — To Tax Robotic Workers

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio speaks during the first night of the Democratic presidential debate on June 26, 2019 (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Attempting to save his flailing presidential candidacy, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to tax businesses for automating jobs, calling it a “robot tax.” Ironically, the plan would hurt the workers that de Blasio aims to help.

De Blasio’s plan would involve establishing a tax on businesses that replace human jobs with automation in the form of five years’ worth of payroll taxes for the jobs eliminated. The revenue raised from this […]

Research Papers On Plc Automation

In paper industry when raw material, water and chemicals mixed together then the modern paper manufacturing requires and uses high technology tools like PLC, VFD’S and HMI to get a precise quality of paper. ieee papers on plc automation pdf. This paper discusses the rationale for these fears, highlighting the specific nature of AI and comparing previous waves. A Pew Research Center survey of 4,135 U. We consistently check for plagiarism before the papers are sent to you. 1573-1582, 4 April, 2011 A wireless application of drip irrigation automation The main aim of the research is to. Modeling of. […]

Presidential Candidate Proposes Automation Agency to Save Jobs: Will It Work?

Presidential Candidate Proposes Automation Agency to Save Jobs: Will It Work?

Image by Office of Bill de Blasio via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en)) On September 5th, presidential candidate and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio published in tech magazine Wired that if elected president, he would “issue a robot tax for corporations displacing humans, and create a federal agency to oversee automation.”

De Blasio is a longshot for even the Democratic nomination—much less the presidency— polling at less than one percent . But his professed concerns about employment losses due to technological innovation and automation aren’t unusual, particularly among those younger than 25. But a new federal agency dedicated to […]

Technology Creates More Jobs Than It Destroys

Technology Creates More Jobs Than It Destroys

Photo by Andy Kelly on Unsplash American presidential candidates Andrew Yang and Bill de Blasio are very concerned about robots taking people’s jobs. Yang has been touting his $1,000 per month "Freedom Dividend" for every American adult since the beginning of his primary run to offset the potential job losses due to automation. De Blasio, on September 5th, published an op-ed published in tech magazine Wired proposing not only a "robot tax" but also the creation of a new federal agency to "oversee" automation and issue permits to businesses who want to increase their automation levels.

Machines will replace humans. […]

Bill de Blasio’s Proposed ‘Robot Tax’ Is Completely Unnecessary, Just Like His Candidacy

Bill de Blasio's Proposed 'Robot Tax' Is Completely Unnecessary, Just Like His Candidacy

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s latest attempt to jump-start his inert presidential campaign includes a call for a new federal tax on robots. This unnecessary burden on businesses would expand the federal bureaucracy and fund boondoggle projects, and it is based on a faulty understanding of the relationship between jobs and automation.

In an column published last week by Wired , de Blasio outlines how his "robot tax" (his words) would work. Businesses that "eliminate jobs through increased automation" would be required to pay five years of payroll taxes, up front, for every employee replaced by a robot, de […]

Robots dominating job market is not inevitable: Oxford economist Carl Frey

Robots dominating job market is not inevitable: Oxford economist Carl Frey

The economic historian believes technology is neither the solution to everything nor a dystopian nightmare

A research published six years ago by two Oxford academics, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, seemed to reinforce this ominous prediction about the global economy: Robots are going to take over our jobs. For, it warned that “about 47% of total US employment is at risk” due to computerisation. Carl, this year, expanded the ideas of the research in a book, which is portentously titled, The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation .

Contrary to what it seems, […]

Is de Blasio’s “robot tax” a good idea?

Is de Blasio’s “robot tax” a good idea?

Phonlamai Photo/Shutterstock New York City Mayor (and Democratic presidential primary candidate) Bill de Blasio has a plan to combat the effects of workplace automation, and while it’s not as inspiringly named as Andrew Yang’s $1,000 monthly ”Freedom Dividend,” the proposal is aimed at the same issue that Yang has built his campaign around: the loss of jobs due to automation.

Late last week, in an op-ed in the tech magazine Wired , de Blasio unveiled a “robot tax” plan to protect workers. It’s one of just a few major policy proposals in his platform, which includes a workers’ bill of […]