Nation Expected to Lose 30% of Jobs to Automation in 15 Years
By: Christianna Reedy March 29, 2017 The Robot Revolution Whether we like it or not, robots are making an impact in the job market. Experts predict that almost a million jobs will be replaced by robots in 2030, while companies like apple are justifying such predictions. This may also be a boon to governments that […]
Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs
By: Claire Cain Miller March 28, 2017 Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans? Last year, two leading economists described a future in which humans come out ahead. But now they’ve declared a different winner: the robots. The industry most affected by automation is manufacturing. For every robot per thousand workers, […]
Britain needs a smart state, not big government, to lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution
By: Alan Mak Mak March 20, 2017 In her first party conference speech as Prime Minister, Theresa May declared it was “time to remember the good that government can do”. Setting out a new approach to the role of the state, she rightly acknowledged that Whitehall doesn’t have all the answers but should instead be […]
The Jobs Americans Do
By: New York Times February 23, 2017 Forget the images of men in hard hats standing before factory gates, of men with coal-blackened faces, of men perched high above New York City on steel beams. The emerging face of the American working class is a Hispanic woman who has never set foot on a factory […]
Learning to Love Our Robot Co-Workers
By: Kim Tingley Feb 23, 2017 The robots were Joe McGillivray’s idea. The first one arrived at Dynamic Group in Ramsey, Minn., by pickup truck in two cardboard boxes. With a mixture of excitement and trepidation, McGillivray watched as a vendor unpacked two silver tubes, assorted blue-and-gray joints and a touch screen and put them […]
A warning from Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking
By: Quincy Larson February 19, 2017 “The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining.” — Stephen Hawking There’s a rising chorus of concern about […]
How Automation is Going to Redefine What it Means to Work
By: Scott Santens January 24, 2017 On December 2nd, 1942, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi came back from lunch and watched as humanity created the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction inside a pile of bricks and wood underneath a football field at the University of Chicago. Known to history as Chicago Pile-1, it […]
White House Releases a Solution to Automation-Caused Job Loss
By: Futurism December 22, 2016 The White House Weighs In In a new report, the White House makes clear its position on how best to address the expected job loss due to increased automation and better artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This isn’t the first time that the Obama administration has proposed guidelines regarding AI, and […]
UN Report: Robots Will Replace Two-Thirds of All Workers in the Developing World
By: Eleazer Corpuz November 11, 2016 From recent reports, it may seem like automation only affects those in developed countries; however, a report from the UN Conference on Trade and Development recently noted the ways in which automation impacts those in developing countries—and it seems that it impacts these nations even more than the industrialized […]