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.”
2019 – Axios
“Trump has made a policy cornerstone out of his trade war with China, elevating the automation-breeds-competitiveness argument. Companies could be propelled toward faster automation and accelerate a coming topsy-turvy future of work.”
2019 – Axios
“For the last half-dozen years and longer, one of the most hotly debated questions on the planet has been the fate of employment in a future of AI and robots.”
December 7, 2018 – Erin Winick – MIT Technology Review
“Andrew Yang announced he is vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination back in February. His mission? Preparing America for automation.”