Tag Archives: job loss

An interesting report from the World Economic Forum analyses the expected (possible?) impact Generative AI will (may) have on various job sectors. It is surely worth reading. What strikes me most is that (Generative) AI is shifting automation to, and jeopardize, white collars, doing what robots did to blue collars. …

Sort of ironic that a safety worker is being laid off because of safety reasons. Isn’t it? Yet, this is what is happening in California where Zoox, a taxi service using self driving cars has laid off some 120 safety drivers required by California law to provide the service. Because …

A quick map of the correlations among Digital Transformation, Automation and Knowledge Society. My chicken scratch… I characterise the Digital Transformation as the shift from the Economy of Scarcity, based on atoms, to the Economy of Abundance, based on bits. This shift is crucial since out of that there are …

: Today I am going to give a Webinar (in Italian) on the impact of the Digital Transformation on jobs and education to an audience of teachers from schools in Italy. The crucial point we are facing is that on the one hand knowledge means potential revenue, on the other …

In a comprehensive list of jobs at risk of automation brokerage clerks have a 99% probability of seeing their job disappearing in the next 10 years. Ok. but that is about clerks… Financial Advisors have to be way smarter and in that list they are considered to have ONLY 58% …

I was asked by Justine Spack, Content Administrator in IEEE Technical Activities, to share a few thoughts on how  automation/AI may affect the job market.  This is what I shared: Robots have become much more flexible, can learn, can operate in cluster – more recently in team (robots and humans) – …

Computer graphics and animation graphics have become so good to trick our eyes into believing that what we see is real. Cameron-James Wilson, a British photographer has created his own supermodel, Shudu, that can do the catwalk (in a video…) as well as a real model. The result is actually …

Many economists are telling that the loss of jobs resulting from automation and artificial intelligence is not permanent, new jobs will be created and eventually the world will keep spinning as it always did.  To sustain their claim they turn to the Industrial Revolution where we had the real first …