MIT Sloan Management Review
Why AI Isn’t the Death of Jobs
5 min · · Innovation-focused adopters of AI are positioning themselves for growth, which tends to stimulate jobs. · Shared by 15, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing
Pocket Casts
Yuval Noah Harari reveals the real dangers ahead
· Historian and futurist Yuval Harari has a story about the future that’s profound, exciting, and unsettling. · Shared by 5, including Bertrand Maltaverne
Harvard Business Review
Your AI Efforts Won’t Succeed Unless They Benefit Employees
5 min · · Workers need to know AI is here to help — not steal their jobs. · Shared by 45, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Joseph Kvedar, MD, Andy Jankowski, Carla Johnson - Keynote Speaker, Gerrit Eicker, 瑞拿頭, Antonio Vieira Santos, Jonathan Kogan, Thomas Wong, Ian M Calvert
Quartz
The only thing making Prime Day bearable for Amazon workers is the robots
8 min · · Inside a massive Amazon fulfillment center, days before the Prime Day shopping event, everything is calm. And that's because robots are running the show. · Shared by 10, including Bertrand Maltaverne
TED Talks
A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
· What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a doughnut," says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole -- where people are falling short on life's essentials -- and create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet's ecological limits. · Shared by 52, including Tristan Harris, Further, Kate Raworth, Bertrand Maltaverne
evonomics.com
Evolving the New Economy: Tim O’Reilly and David Sloan Wilson
20+ min · · Evolutionary theory meets artificial intelligence and the management of algorithms. · Shared by 19, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Greater than the Sum, ANGELS_ONLY, Tim O'Reilly
Project Syndicate
The Social Solution to Automation
4 min · · In our efficiency-obsessed society, new technologies are deployed with the single-minded objective of boosting productivity and eliminating the need for human labor. But rather than worry about the… · Shared by 18, including Bertrand Maltaverne, MIT Press
Quartz
The short but destructive history of mass layoffs
11+ min · · It was only in the 1970s that laying off workers in droves became standard practice. · Shared by 13, including @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Bertrand Maltaverne
Project Syndicate
The Revolution Need Not Be Automated | by Daron Acemoglu & Pascual Restrepo
4 min · · For centuries after the Industrial Revolution, automation did not hinder wage and employment growth, because it was accompanied by new technologies geared toward maintaining the role of human labor in… · Shared by 24, including Jonathan Kogan, Bertrand Maltaverne
medium.com
Work Futures Daily | Failed Expectations
8 min · · | Mass Layoffs | So-So Automation | Phased Retirement | Charles Altieri | Childless Cities | Older Posts | · Shared by 7, including Stowe Boyd, Bertrand Maltaverne
Axios
Automation is destroying more jobs than it creates
2 min · · In three new papers, two leading U.S. labor economists reject the predictions that it will create more jobs than it destroys. · Shared by 15, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Scott Santens
MIT Technology Review
What is machine learning? We drew you another flowchart
7 min · · It pretty much runs the world. · Shared by 204, including يونس بن عمارة, Gengo 🦁, Ian M Calvert, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, USC ICT, Bertrand Maltaverne, Josep M. Ganyet, luis antónio santos, Dominik Grolimund, Philippe Surber, Antonio Vieira Santos, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Thomas Power, Vala Afshar, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, hiten.eth, Florian Hanke 🍎, Brian Solis, Clemens M. Schuster
Fast Company
Is AI killing jobs? Actually, it added 3x more than it replaced in 2018
1 min · · The new ZiprRecruiter report on the Future of work found that AI is adding jobs in manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, and education—all sectors that feared job losses. · Shared by 59, including Daniel Buchmueller, Ronald van Loon, Antonio Vieira Santos, Kirk Borne, Jonathan Kogan, Bertrand Maltaverne, Gabriele, rudolph regter
ZORA
A.I. Is Not as Advanced as You Might Think
6 min · · It starts with the systems it was built off of · Shared by 33, including Katja Evertz, Dominik Grolimund, Bertrand Maltaverne
Pocket Casts
AI: What's Hype? What's Reality?
· Guests Jerry Kaplan of Stanford University, Oren Etzioni of The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, research fellow Geoffrey Hinton of Google, Hilary Mason of Cloudera, and author Nick… · Shared by 4, including Bertrand Maltaverne
The Washington Post
As Walmart turns to robots, it’s the human workers who feel like machines
· Workers at the some of the retail giant's stores said they had long expected the robots would take their jobs one day. But they hadn’t expected this middle period, during which they have to work side by side with machines that can be brittle, clumsy and easily confused by the messy realities of big-box retail. · Shared by 11, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Dr. David Ballard