Concerns that new digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and robotics will create widespread technological non-employment are now widespread. Various recent labour market trends, ranging from declines in US labour force participation to increases in wage inequality and the share of capital in national income, are seen as harbingers of this new normal (e.g. Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2012, Akst 2014, Autor 2015, Karabarbounis and Neiman 2014, Oberfield and Raval 2014).
The Transport Workers' Union (TWU) today called on the next Australian government to convene a task force into the impact of the so-called “sharing economy” and automation on jobs and workplace rights.
The writing is on the wall: the robots will take our jobs. Martin Ford, author of Rise of the Robots, explains the implications for the capitalist system.
Marilee Foster is not the kind of farmer who makes rash decisions. But when she recently heard about Rowbot, a lawn-mower sized autonomous machine that can fertilize the soil, mulch weeds and sow crops on 50 acres a day, she asked, “How much does it cost? And where can I get it?”
We are in the midst of a revolution, occasioned by the disappearance of a massive number of jobs as we know them. We are experiencing the end of work as we know it.
Is a robot coming for your job? It’s not a novel question, but if Gartner’s predictions are correct, the answer could be leaning more definitively toward..
In this talk recorded at the RSA, leading expert on AI and the robotics revolution Martin Ford offers both an exploration of this new technology and a call to arms to face its radical implications. The world is being transformed by a profound technological revolution, dominated by digital – a second machine age. Digital technology is changing …
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And a recent report noted that the increase in inequality and creation of a permanent, unemployable “underclass” could lead to riots and social unrest. “The central question of 2025 will be: What are people for in a world that does not need their labour?” one analyst commented.
Matt McMullen is developing a sex robot that uses technology to create the illusion of sentience. But is it enough to generate real emotions in its user?
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