February 13, 2020 – Charlotte Jee – MIT Technology Review
“Spot, a four-legged robot made by Boston Dynamics, has one of its first real-world assignments: oil and gas firm Aker BP will start using it to patrol a rig in the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea this year.”
August 5, 2019 – William D. Eggers, Amrita Datar, David Parent & Jenn Gustetic – Deloitte
“As humans and intelligent machines working together becomes the norm in the workplace, organizations have an opportunity to maximize the potential of both.”
July 21, 2018 – Alison Snyder – Axios
“As the workforce ages in some countries and middle-aged workers are in short supply, industrial robots are stepping in to perform their jobs.”
November 19, 2019 – Rick Wartzman – Fast Company
“Some 25 million workers in the U.S. stand to be touched the most by AI. That’s about 15% of the nation’s labor force.”
11/14/19 – Andrew Yang – The New York Times
“Automation doesn’t just affect millions of factory workers and truck drivers. Bookkeepers, journalists, retail and food service workers, office clerks, call center employees and even teachers also face the threat of being replaced by machines.”
10/31/19 – Wired – Sara Harrison
“In the study, researchers divided the listings into three groups based on the advertised pay, then examined how different tasks were being valued. What they found is that how we value tasks may be starting to change.”
October 24, 2019 – Danielle Kurtzleben – NPR
“The question of whether trade or automation affects employment more not only divides economists, but appears set to drive major questions in the Democratic primary.”
September 10, 2019 – Anthony Ha – TechCrunch
“McDonald’s is increasingly looking at tech acquisitions as a way to reinvent the fast-food experience. It’s buying Apprente, a startup building conversational agents that can automate voice-based ordering in multiple languages.”
April 13, 2019 – Kaveh Waddell – Axios
“By changing incentives that currently encourage the development of technologies that compete with people, experts hope to redirect the future of work away from widespread automation-fueled job loss.”
2019 – Axios
“A number of companies are trying to prep their high-skilled workers for the future. But the impact may be larger than the response thus far.”