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Robots will create more jobs than they eradicate by 2020

Robots will create more jobs than they eradicate by 2020

The use of artificial intelligence ( AI ) technology will begin to create more jobs than it replaces in 2020, with two million more jobs created than replaced by AI by 2025. Watch out – artificial intelligence (AI) is going to steal your job!

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Is your job really at risk of being taken over by AI?

Is your job really at risk of being taken over by AI?

The idea of a truly self-aware Artificial Intelligence generally fills people with dread. Popular culture has been obsessed with AI overlords ( The Terminator , anyone?) for ages. While murderous robots and megalomaniacal software programmes are still a long time away, the possibility of AI slowly replacing humans in many roles is increasingly becoming real .

With innovation in the space receiving much greater focus than ever before, economies are shifting to make themselves more agile and mobile to become future-ready. AI has already entered our collective consciousness, with broad implications for most major sectors. With AI-enabled cars, phones, and […]

As Robot Sales Increase, So Will Jobs for Humans

As Robot Sales Increase, So Will Jobs for Humans

Referring to the fact that productivity growth slowed in the 1970s and 1980s even while information technology developed rapidly, economist Robert Solow once quipped: "You can see the impact of IT everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Today, one can see the so-called job-destroying impact of robotics everywhere but the employment statistics.

Last month, the U.S. economy created over 220,000 net jobs. On average, it has created 174,000 jobs a month this year, relatively tepid but nonetheless steady job growth (just below last year’s 187,000 jobs a month). With a 4.1 percent jobless rate, and more Americans re-entering the workforce, […]

Perry L. Weed: Numbers point to more workforce disruption

Perry L. Weed: Numbers point to more workforce disruption

Perry L. Weed is an attorney and the founder and director of the Economic Club of Annapolis. (Courtesy Photo / HANDOUT) As of October 2017, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected an increase in total employment from 156.1 million in 2016 to 167.6 million in 2026 – 11.5 million. Almost all new job growth in the next 10 years will be in the service-providing sector.

By 2026, this sector is projected to account for more than 81 percent of all wage and salary jobs in the U.S. economy and most of the job growth. Driven by aging baby boomers and […]

Literary Links

Literary Links

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Collection Management Librarian Kirk Henley compiled this month’s selections.

Every once in a while I learn about a new technological breakthrough, and I’m struck with a sense that I’m living in a science fiction novel.

The stuff of dreams when I was a kid — virtual reality, robots, artificial intelligence — is now becoming the domain of nonfiction and the nightly news. But as wondrous as these advances are, they can also bring with them a feeling of anxiety. These things […]

‘No job is safe’ Expert says robots will spark GLOBAL migration and unemployment crisis

‘No job is safe’ Expert says robots will spark GLOBAL migration and unemployment crisis

JOBS: The rise in automatons could spark a global employment and migration crisis Top UK lawyer Monica Atwal said the automaton will soon be widespread, with workers in all fields replaced by automatons.

Ms Atwal, who is the managing partner at Clarkslegal law firm, claimed all jobs – and not just manual labour – are at risk of being done by machines.

She said this is in part because robots can work 24 hours-a-day all seven days a week, making them a hugely attractive investment for employers.She told Daily Star Online: “In all countries, people skilled in driving vehicles, flying planes, […]

How the Job Automation Crisis Will Play out in America

How the Job Automation Crisis Will Play out in America

The next wave of economic dislocations won’t come from overseas, it will come from the relentless pace of automation that makes a lot of good, middle-class jobs obsolete.
– President Obama, during his farewell speech Automation has done incredible things for humans in recent times. However, with each wave of technological change, societies must learn to adapt. In the present day, we are on the brink of yet another technological revolution which will be much more disruptive than any which have come before: a Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Crisis Begins

Technologists predict that in the next 5 years, widespread […]

Workers don’t fear automation (because they don’t understand it)

Workers don't fear automation (because they don't understand it)

A new survey suggests workers may not be as concerned about automation as they should be.

The ZDNet crowd will be hip to the perils and opportunities of automation — a blanket term for everything from robots that go beep-boop-bop to process automation and the growing AI toolkit available to enterprise customers.

If the comments section is any indicator, readers have strong feelings about the topic. ZipRecruiter , an online employment marketplace, recently contracted Harris Poll to conduct a survey of 1000 U.S. job seekers."ZipRecruiter’s nationwide data shows 60% of job seekers believe fears around robots taking away jobs are overhyped […]

IT jobs: Traditional employment dying, here’s how AI and machine learning can revolutionise segment

IT jobs: Traditional employment dying, here’s how AI and machine learning can revolutionise segment

From driverless cars and automated recruiting processes to connected machines and voice assistants, these developments are rapidly boosting our productivity at home and at work. Mayank Kumar, Apoorva Shankar

We’ve all heard and read enough—if not actually seen the impact in our day-to-day lives—to figure out that artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing the world as we know it. From driverless cars and automated recruiting processes to connected machines and voice assistants, these developments are rapidly boosting our productivity at home and at work.
The late 1990s to early 2000s was the age of the Indian IT sector, which […]

All grown up? Farming looks to a future with automatic harvesting.

All grown up? Farming looks to a future with automatic harvesting.

Dive Brief:

Agriculture technology firm Smart Ag has developed what it calls AutoCart software to automate existing ag equipment, which can help alleviate labor shortage issues farmers are facing, according to Food Manufacturing . The automatic grain cart system enables one person to do what typically requires two skilled operators.

Though still in the pilot stage, testing of a driverless John Deere tractor and grain cart began this fall at MBS Family Farms in Iowa. AutoCart uses navigation technology adapted from the aerospace industry. It allows the tractor pulling the grain cart to chart an efficient path to wherever […]