Tag: Technical

Will AI Enhance Jobs, or Destroy Them?

Will AI Enhance Jobs, or Destroy Them?

Technology has long been seen as a threat to jobs. But when employees were asked about it, they disagreed with long held assumptions. Here’s why. May 25, 2017 – For all the fear that artificial intelligence will displace workers, a new report has shown that high numbers of employees believe it will actually help rather than hurt their future prospects. Forty eight percent of U.K. business leaders surveyed for the study said that AI is likely to benefit them by bringing more flexibility to their work.

The staffing firm Adecco polled more than 1,000 board and senior level employees for […]

NONFICTION | Software developer argues robots will impact economy

Bob Funk
Contributing writer

For those who worry about the future for their loved ones, and others in general, add another dire prediction to the menu of impending disasters looming over the horizon.
In addition to global warming and natural resource depletion, a crushing national debt, and an arc of political, economic, and social instability across Africa and the Middle East and its causal relationship to global terrorism, now add the rise of robots.Anyone concerned with the future of employment and work should read “The Rise of Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future,” written by Martin Ford, a […]

Automation and globalisation is leading to a shift in demand for skills

Automation and globalisation is leading to a shift in demand for skills

A new Deloitte Access Economics report, commissioned by Deakin University’s DeakinCo , has predicted automation, globalisation and demographic shifts would lead to soft skill-intensive occupations increasing at 2½ times the rate of other jobs, to account for 63 per cent of all jobs in 2030, up from half in 2000.

According to the Soft Skills for Business Success report, the skills most sought by employers were communication (cited in 71 per cent of job ads), digital skills (26 per cent), critical thinking (25 per cent), self-management (20 per cent) and problem-solving (19 per cent).

DeakinCo. chief executive Simon Hann said the […]

Job automation threatens employment opportunities

Job automation threatens employment opportunities

Future jobs will be replaced with proliferation of artificial intelligence and robotics. | Tim Seeberger/THE CHIMES While President Donald Trump has worked on keeping American factories alive by rewriting trade deals, taxing imports and removing regulations, a greater risk to the loss of jobs lies ahead. The automation of jobs has been a threat on the horizon for years. 38 percent of jobs in the U.S. are at high risk of being replaced by robots and artificial intelligence over the next 15 years, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers . Many manufacturing and warehouse jobs have been taken over […]

These 10 cities will lose the most jobs to automation

These 10 cities will lose the most jobs to automation

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Low-wage cities such as Las Vegas, Orlando, and El Paso will be hit the hardest by job automation, according to a recent report from the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis (ISEA). And the impact of automation on job losses is likely to be more severe than previously predicted, the report stated: Due to advances in machine learning and mobile robotics, jobs such as truck driving, healthcare diagnostics, and education are more likely to be affected.

“The replacement of jobs by machines has been happening continuously since the Industrial Revolution, but it’s expected to significantly accelerate in the […]

VIDEO: How Industrial Automation Promotes Job Growth

VIDEO: How Industrial Automation Promotes Job Growth

There’s a widely held and erroneous perception that industrial automation is job killer, but in reality, it’s quite the opposite, said Jeff Burnstein, president of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3).

A3 recently released a whitepaper titled Working in the Automation Age: Sustainable Careers Today and into the Future , which discredits the theory that automation hurts jobs and promotes how modern men and women can find more meaningful, safer and more enjoyable work.

“The hysterical stories keep being printed in the media, but the robot we see doesn’t match the idea of robots being a job killer,” said Burnstein. “If […]

Do You Live On The Front Lines Of Automation?

Do You Live On The Front Lines Of Automation?

If you live in Las Vegas, El Paso, or Louisville, there’s a particularly good chance that your job could be taken by a robot in the next two decades.

Using data from a 2013 Oxford study that found that nearly half of American jobs are at risk from automation–from truck driving and telemarketing to legal assistants–a new study maps out which cities are likely to lose the most jobs. (The next phase of the research will look at how the risk affects people differently based on age, race, educational level, and other demographic factors, and will break down data further […]

How to Get Rich From the Robot Revolution

How to Get Rich From the Robot Revolution

He was referring to a topic I’ve written about here before: the robot revolution. Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse wrote a recent opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal , declaring that we are living through “the largest economic disruption in recorded history.”

Millions of good-paying jobs are rapidly being eliminated, thanks to increasing automation.

Not just field laborers and factory workers. Machines are threatening financial advisors, bankers, accountants and other white-collar professionals, including doctors and lawyers.To hear some folks describe it, this is the beginning of the end. Technology – particularly robotics and artificial intelligence – will destroy not just employment […]

Will automation become the next job killer?

Will automation become the next job killer?

Automation is on track to become the ultimate job killer. In fact, much like the industrial revolution 200 years ago, the automation of human tasks is revolutionising both the workplace and society. What this means for the manufacturing sector can be both thrilling and frightening depending on whose point of view you take.

According to a recent article in phys.org, the fear of losing our jobs to machines is not new. With some forecasts indicating that within 20 years, 35 per cent of all UK jobs are at risk of vanishing from automation, it might be a good time to […]

MORADI | Automation Nation

MORADI | Automation Nation

Ah, springtime. The sun is (relatively) out, flowers are blooming, birds are singing and nearly half of American jobs are at risk of being completely eradicated due to automation.

Automation is hitting the U.S. job market as suddenly as that segue. An oft-cited 2013 study by economist Carl Frey and computer scientist Michael Osborne estimates that 47 percent of American employment is at high risk of being entirely automated. The most automatable jobs are fairly obvious: repetitive manufacturing jobs, telemarketing and occupations that deal mostly with clerking top the list. Some jobs, though, are surprisingly automatable: models and real-estate brokers, […]