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Workers at Hino Motors Manufacturing Indonesia, Indonesia

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Mind Matters
Date
November 27, 2018

Categorized
Work

Tagged
Amazon, employment, Jobs, Karl Marx, Strike, Unemployment, Work}

Is AI Creating the Conditions for Marxist Revolution?

_{An analyst looks at the conditions then and now} _{Mind Matters
November 27, 2018

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Work}

Last summer, we noted Karl Marx’s eerie AI prediction; he felt that capitalism would fall when machines replaced human labor. While today’s market economy doesn’t seem in a hurry to fulfill either prediction, some see artificial intelligence as enabling a comeback of his theories. Read More ›

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Mind Matters
Date
November 21, 2018

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Work

Tagged
Advertising, Jay Richards, Job Displacement, Social Factors}

The Death of the Ad Agency Was Widely Publicized

_{But, like so many industries, advertising turned out to be weathering the digital storm after all} _{Mind Matters
November 21, 2018

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Arts & Culture, Work}

A 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.

Is the future of jobs over?

_{Should people be paid to let machines do the work?} _{Mind Matters
September 17, 2018

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Machine Learning, Work}

Recently, there have been short-term limited experiments with a Universal Basic Income but it’s hard to evaluate a transformative social policy with such limited and cherry-picked data. And, says Richards, paying people not to work would simply slow their move into the job markets of the digital age. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 30, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Work

Tagged
Dystopia, Jay Richards, Robots, The Human Advantage}

Robogeddon!! Pause.

_{Wait. This just in: AI is NOT killing all our jobs} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 30, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Work}

Jay Richards, author of The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines,sees it as more of a retooling than a meltdown. But retooling does mean change, work, cost, and risk. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 19, 2018

Categorized
Natural Intelligence, Work

Tagged
government-policy, High Tech Jobs, Jay Richards, Job Displacement, The Human Advantage}

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.} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 19, 2018

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Natural Intelligence, Work}

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 ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 9, 2018

Categorized
Work

Tagged
Apocalypticism, Automation, Featured, Jay Richards, The Human Advantage, Unemployment}

Will AI lead to mass joblessness and social unrest?

_{Denyse O'Leary
July 9, 2018

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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.”