Automation and AI Are Going to Decimate Middle Class Jobs
By: Business Insider December 02, 2018 Artificial intelligence and increasing automation is going to decimate middle class jobs, worsening inequality and risking significant political upheaval, Stephen Hawking has warned. In a column in The Guardian, the world-famous physicist wrote that “the automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of […]
AI INDEX 2018
By: December 2, 2018 Introduction to the AI Index 2018 Annual Report We are pleased to introduce the AI Index 2018 Annual Report. This year’s report accomplishes two objectives. First, it refreshes last year’s metrics. Second, it provides global context whenever possible. The former is critical to the Index’s mission — grounding the AI conversation […]
The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
By: Daron Acemoglu, MIT & Pascual Restrepo, Boston University AI as a Technological PlatformHuman (or natural) intelligence comprises several different types of mental activities. These include, among others, simple computation, data processing, pattern recognition, prediction, hand-eye coordination, various types of problem solving, judgment, creativity, and communication. Early AI, pioneered in the 1950s by researchers from […]