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Is AI Creating the Conditions for Marxist Revolution?
An analyst looks at the conditions then and now
The Death of the Ad Agency Was Widely Publicized
But, like so many industries, advertising turned out to be weathering the digital storm after allA recent surge in jobs could be temporary. But it’s beginning to look as though the iconic ad culture is adjusting to the digital age. There's a film in that too. Probably a lot of them.
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Is the future of jobs over?
Should people be paid to let machines do the work?
Robogeddon!! Pause.
Wait. This just in: AI is NOT killing all our jobs
Jay Richards asks, can training for an AI future be trusted to bureaucrats?
We hear so much about how the AI revolution gobbles industrial era jobs that we don't notice the digital era jobs unfilled.On Tuesday, entrepreneur Ivanka Trump told Wall Street Journal readers, The assembly line, energy plant and retail store have changed dramatically in the past 25 years—and the jobs have, too. Nearly 1 in 5 working Americans has a job that didn’t exist in 1980, many in technology, the fastest-growing segment across all industries. Such rapid change is one reason 6.6 million U.S. jobs are currently unfilled. More. Currently unfilled? We hear so much about how the AI revolution is gobbling industrial era jobs that the shortage of people trained for digital era jobs takes a while to register. Trump goes on to discuss new legislation to address the shortage by providing more relevant education to future jobseekers (paywall). Meanwhile, from the Read More ›
Will AI lead to mass joblessness and social unrest?
A 2018 book by political scientist Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor argues that it will: “automated systems entrench social and economic inequality by design and undermine private and public welfare.” Read More ›