Jun 28 2017 – Jack Ewing – New York Times
Central Bankers agree that artificial intelligence could eliminate jobs on a scale that would dwarf previous waves of technological change.
Jun 27 2017 – Tony Romm – Recode
The company’s Watson team is embarking on a lobbying push to address what it sees as an incorrect “dystopian” view of AI.
Jun 24 2017 – Kai-Fu Lee – New York Times
A definition of artificial intelligence as it is being used today and the threat it places on our economy as we know it.
2017 – Voyager S1 E1 – Motherboard
Motherboard goes to Japan to visit the Henn-na Hotel, which is staffed almost entirely by robots. Host Ben Ferguson meets some of our future android companions and talks to CEO Hideo Sawada about his vision to replace human workers with machines.
June 22 2017 – M. Whitehouse, M. Rojanasakul, & C. Sam – Bloomberg Businessweek
Research showing which job sectors are at risk, and it’s not just manufacturing jobs.
June 2017 – Futurism
A video describing how machines are learning to do things better than humans.
Jun 17 2017 – Claire Cain Miller – New York Times
Automated retail stores may be a thing of the future and Amazon Go shows us the way.
June 16 2017 – Yiting Sun – MIT Technology Review
Wheelys tests a 24-hour store run entirely by technology.
June 15 2017 – Dom Galeon – Futurism
This month has shown that Hawaii may be the U.S.’s most forward-thinking state. Earlier in June, it became the first state to formally accept the provisions of the Paris Climate Accord, and now, the state congress has passed a bill that puts Hawaii on the path to universal basic income.
Jun 15 2017 – Dom Galeon – Business Insider
Hawaii is taking the lead in embracing a new and innovative idea: Universal Basic Income.