Tag: robots

The optimist’s guide to the robot apocalypse

Machines, you may have heard, are coming for all the jobs. Robots flip burgers and work warehouses. Artificial intelligence handles insurance claims and basic bookkeeping, manages investment portfolios, does legal research, and performs basic HR tasks. Read full Article

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The Automation Charade

The rise of the robots has been greatly exaggerated. Whose interests does that serve? Somewhere, right now, a manager is intoning to a broke, exhausted underling that someone is willing to do the same job for less—or, that some thing is willing to do it for free. Read full Article

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