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Another View — Kevin Willis: Don’t overlook the potential of jobs in skilled trades

Another View -- Kevin Willis: Don't overlook the potential of jobs in skilled trades

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MAYBE you parents dream of sending your kid to college because you think it’s a ticket to a good job.

Or, perhaps your idea of “blue collar” work is a job with low pay and limited opportunity.Times have changed and so has the economy. Now, it’s important that we all shift our way of thinking — for our children’s sake.I write on behalf of human resources managers, personnel recruiters, and executives for employers in Manchester and in nearby cities.I am the fleet manager for PepsiCo Inc., responsible for its locations in Manchester and throughout the state. What […]

America’s Digitalization Divide

America’s Digitalization Divide

We’ve long heard about America’s digital divide , but the nation is facing a parallel and deepening digitalization divide, too. According to a new Brookings Institution study , this digitalization divide is reflected in the increasingly uneven spread of high-paying digital jobs across the economy and workforce, by gender, race, and ethnicity, and across cities and metro areas.

Digitalization has transformed just about everything we do—from the way we work to our entertainment choices, and how we communicate with one another. It’s not just knowledge workers, smart phones, and laptops we’re talking about. Our cars, televisions, and appliances are loaded […]

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,” […]

How Alphabet and Google Think About AI and The Economy

How Alphabet and Google Think About AI and The Economy

In the past, we’ve heard Alphabet’s Google unit describe itself as an " AI-first company ," as well as the importance of artificial intelligence and machine learning to the products that Google makes. At a workshop on AI and the Future of Work earlier this month, Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt discussed where such technologies are heading, as well as their impact on jobs, income inequality, and American competitiveness.

Schmidt said he has been following AI since the 1970s, and noted that Alphabet CEO Larry Page studied AI at Stanford, but conceded that, until recently, he had been pretty skeptical […]

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 […]

What The Digital Revolution Means for Middle-Class Jobs

What The Digital Revolution Means for Middle-Class Jobs

(All graphics courtesy of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings) According to popular narrative, technology’s rapid remake of the U.S. workforce has benefited wealthy coastal metro areas — and their more highly educated residents — and left the rest of the country behind. It’s a force that’s fostered inequality, benefited the already privileged and widened the urban-rural divide.

But as with most popular narratives, that one isn’t entirely true. From nurses who use portable vein finders for blood tests to auto mechanics troubleshooting cars on their laptops, technology is reshaping industries across the board — not just the higher-skilled ones […]

Why the U.S. Fails at Worker Training

Why the U.S. Fails at Worker Training

Lilli Carré When asked about Donald Trump’s June 2017 executive order calling for the expansion of apprenticeships, Anthony Carnevale says it’s just “good PR.”

Carnevale—the research professor and director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce —believes the high costs of apprenticeships and the U.S.’s dark past with job training will stymie the effort, which aims to help people find jobs in an economy that is rapidly changing primarily because of technological advances. According to Carnevale, apprenticeships—in which aspiring workers learn a trade from a skilled employer in exchange for low wages—can be extremely expensive. The high […]

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 […]