Future of Work

The pair joined prominent researchers in pledging support for principles to protect mankind from machines. BY ANTHONY CUTHBERTSON, Jan 31, 2017 Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have joined prominent artificial intelligence researchers in pledging support for principles to protect mankind from machines and a potential AI arms race.

Many jobs can’t be done from home—but they offer another kind of flexibility, one that may not mean sacrificing pay. by Rebecca Greenfield, Bloomberg, Jan. 30, 2017 Quick: When you dream of a more flexible work life, what does it look like? For most of us, the holy grail is working from home—but the future…

ADITI NIGAM, Jan. 29, 2017 Urges stakeholders to prepare and adapt to changes Flagging the imminent takeover of million of jobs by disruptive technologies such as robotics, automation, cloud, Internet of Things etc., a new ILO study urges all stakeholders — government, employers and employees — to lose no time in adapting to these changes…

By JURICA DUJMOVIC, Jan. 24, 2017 Look at Wipro: Human programmers are being freed from drudgery to focus on more complex work Courtesy Everett Collection Approximately 40% of the global population has access to the internet. The global economy depends on it, and millions of companies and their employees design websites, coding applications and providing…

By James Manyika, Michael Chui, Mehdi Miremadi, Jacques Bughin, Katy George, Paul Willmott, and Martin Dewhurst, Jan 2017 Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. A new McKinsey Global Institute report finds realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand…

http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Trends/Robots-worming-their-way-into-Japanese-service-sector?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Tour company H.I.S. to launch advisory business Robots greet guests at the Henn-na Hotel in the H.I.S. group’s Huis Ten Bosch theme park. TOKYO — A growing number of service-sector businesses in Japan are opening up to the idea of using robots to cope with worker shortages and boost productivity, and major tour company…

Businessworld, Jan. 20, 2017 IF YOUR JOB involves inputting reams of data for a company, you might want to think about retraining in a more specialized field. Or as a plumber. After industrial robots and international trade put paid to many manufacturing jobs in the West, millions of white-collar workers could now be under threat…

by Pierre Nanterme, Jan 17, 2017 Today, most of us are seizing commercial opportunities in digital, but new evidence suggests we may be missing an even bigger prize: digital’s social and environmental benefits.

By James Manyika, Michael Chui, Mehdi Miremadi, Jacques Bughin, Katy George, Paul Willmott, and Martin Dewhurst Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. A new McKinsey Global Institute report finds realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand in hand.

Alfred Bayle, INQUIRER.net, Jan. 16, 2017 The age of robot butlers is nearly upon us as Panasonic launches a trial run of their indoor delivery robot, HOSPI.

Businessworld, January 13, 2017 FLAT, orange robots glide under stationary cars and ferry them to empty Chinese parking bays, using space more efficiently and, their creators say, reducing driver stress.

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As a confluence of new apps and devices steadily flow into the enterprise, they’re encountering a growing sense that the digital workplace has become too complex and fragmented to be properly effective. What can organizations do? By Dion Hinchcliffe for Enterprise, January 10, 2017 With so much of our business work being done today within…

by DAVID RYAN POLGAR, Jan 8, 2017 34 workers at a Japanese insurance company are being laid off and replaced with an artificial intelligence (AI) system. Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance, seeking greater efficiency in calculating their payouts to policyholders, will soon replace many of its office workers with an AI system based on IBM’s Watson…

INQUIRER.net / January 06, 2017 One of the fears revolving around the development of artificial intelligence rises from the possibility that it may eventually replace humans as a workforce. This fear has now become a reality for a number of employees working for a Japanese company.

By James Manyika, Michael Chui, Mehdi Miremadi, Jacques Bughin, Katy George, Paul Willmott, and Martin Dewhurst Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. A new McKinsey Global Institute report finds realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand in hand.

By Steven Butler, The Daily Dose, January 3, 2017 Because the world economy is in the doldrums and could use some help. The train pulls out of the station as I lean on the throttle — a mile of freight cars in tow — accelerating to over 80 mph. Catching sight of some curves and…

by PHILIP PERRY, Dec 27, 2016 The Trump campaign ran on bringing jobs back to American shores, although mechanization has been the biggest reason for manufacturing jobs’ disappearance. Similar losses have led to populist movements in several other countries. But instead of a pro-job growth future, economists across the board predict further losses as AI,…

by PHILIP PERRY, December 27, 2016 The Trump campaign ran on bringing jobs back to American shores, although mechanization has been the biggest reason for manufacturing jobs’ disappearance. Similar losses have led to populist movements in several other countries. But instead of a pro-job growth future, economists across the board predict further losses as AI,…

When we look back, 2016 could be the year we started to live longer, better and beyond Earth. by Eric Mack, cnet.com, Dec 18, 2016 It’s been hard to miss all the ink and pixels declaring 2016 the year of humanity’s discontent. That judgment’s tough to deny in the realm of geopolitics, given awful conflicts…

by Matt McFarland, December 14, 2016 Amazon has kicked off a private trial of its highly anticipated drone delivery program.

Dec 12, 2016, http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/universal-basic-income-peter-diamandis?trk=eml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-0-null&midToken=AQGrvB1hcZb7Ag&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=29KP9QwdFfPTw1 Some fear that robots and AI will steal our jobs. They probably will (in the near-term, at least half of them).

by Paul Daugherty, Dec 12, 2016 Technology is a key topic at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2017. Watch the session on Artificial Intelligence here. Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be the single most disruptive technology the world has seen since the Industrial Revolution. Granted, there is a lot of hype out there on AI,…

By Matikas Santos, Sara Isabelle Pacia INQUIRER.net, December 12, 2016 (Editor’s Note: As 2016 comes to a close, the Inquirer asks in its yearender series seven questions for the new year, considering key local and international events that shaped what many regard as one of the most turbulent years in modern times. This fourth part…

Welcome to capitalism 2.0. At Amazon Go, a pilot store opening next year, customers check in with their phones, grab their items, and get billed to their Amazon accounts without standing in line or checking out. With Amazon reportedly planning thousands of grocery stores in the future, some speculate that the zero-human-interaction model could expand…

http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/the-robots-are-coming-for-the-farms/70693?utm_source=ozyge&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=12062016&variable=52af57bdb25c500ad0fe628fd8cf4052 Just minutes outside the city limits of Kyoto, Japan, the farmland begins. It’s lush, dotted with healthy paddy fields, halcyon against a mountain vista. Continue as far as Kameoka and you reach the place where the farmlands may end. Not because the horizon halts, but because a certain small factory, situated within these nearly…

by David Katzmaier, December 5, 2016 7:21 AM PST @dkatzmaier It may look like shoplifting, but it’s actually Amazon’s latest real-world shopping experiment. “Four years ago we started to wonder: what would shopping be like if you could just walk into a store, grab what you wanted, and just go.” That’s how a new video…

By James Manyika, Dec. 2016 Automation, digital platforms, and other innovations are changing the fundamental nature of work. Understanding these shifts can help policy makers, business leaders, and workers move forward, writes James Manyika in a briefing note prepared for the Fortune + Time Global Forum in Vatican City.

By Kevin Maney, November 30, 2016, Bloomberg Next time you stop for gas at a self-serve pump, say hello to the robot in front of you. Its life story can tell you a lot about the robot economy roaring toward us like an EF5 tornado on the prairie.

Marching at airports across the country, drivers for the ride-hailing company join the “Fight for $15” campaign calling for a higher wage. by Dara Kerr, November 28, 2016, https://www.cnet.com/news/uber-drivers-demand-better-pay-in-nation-wide-protest/?ftag=CAD1acfa04&bhid=24263982675179988932249251023460 Uber drivers will join forces with fast food, home care and airport workers in a nationwide protest on Tuesday. Their demand: higher pay.