Poll: More Workers than Ever Fear Technology Will Make Their Jobs Obsolete
More than one in five Americans are concerned their jobs “will become obsolete because of technology,” according to a Gallup poll.
More than one in five Americans are concerned their jobs “will become obsolete because of technology,” according to a Gallup poll.
The latest robot developed by Boston Dynamics is a large ostrich-looking machine that is used to load heavy shipping pallets.
Several of this year’s Super Bowl commercials focus on the problems with technology, including Michelob’s ULTRA commercial, which features robots beating humans at a number of physical activities.
A Japanese hotel reportedly fired half of its nearly 250 robot staff following various complaints from guests. Henn-na Hotel, which employs various robots from check-in staff to in-room help, reportedly decided to lay off half of its robot employees after
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Most Americans think A.I. will destroy more jobs than it creates, however less than a quarter are afraid of being replaced themselves, according to a report.
The president of a sex doll manufacturing company has claimed that sex robots would be better for children than letting them “find some pornography.”
Futurist Professor Michio Kaku claimed smart robots could “become dangerous,” and that humans may have to “merge” with machines, during an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit this week.
Adult streaming website CamSoda has partnered with sex doll manufacturer RealDoll to create an online sex doll experience in virtual reality.
A robot shop assistant in Scotland was fired after just one week due to customers avoiding him, according to a report.
Jack in the Box CEO Leonard Comma claimed “it just makes sense” to replace human workers in the restaurant industry with robots as the minimum wage increases.
Bloomberg writer and mathematician Cathy O’Neil claimed in an article that sex robots might make men obsolete, even adding she’d gift one to her daughter.
LG Electronics is planning to sell robots that will replace human workers in hotels, airports, and supermarkets.
Four million British private sector jobs could be replaced by robots within ten years, according to a report.
Samantha, a high-tech sex robot available to the public, appeared on Australian network ITV’s This Morning on Tuesday, with her owner.
Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan has claimed that a “big number” of his employees will be replaced by robots eventually.
Robot bricklayers and exoskeletons are the “future of construction,” according to a new report.
A robot has been programmed to iron your clothes by using a camera to create a “hi-res 3D representation” of the creases.
Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov claimed people need to embrace the replacement of jobs by robots and start focusing on tasks that they can’t perform.
Momentum Machines have raised $18 million for their robot-powered restaurant, which includes a robot that can produce over 400 hamburgers per hour.
Lieutenant Governor of California and former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to fight the technology that’s replacing human jobs around America, according to The Guardian.
Popular venture capitalist and Google China founder Kai-Fu Lee claimed that artificial intelligence “will probably replace 50 percent of human jobs,” during an interview with CNBC.
A wave of wandering security robots have started to replace traditional security guards around the United States, with a number of the robots soon to be placed in malls around New York.
An online robot lawyer designed to help people overturn unfair parking tickets has been adapted by its creator to help migrants claim asylum in the U.S., Canada, and Britain.
This week has been quite a week for robots and baseball. On Monday, Jose Canseco went on a prolonged Twitter rant, in which he prophesized a future in which human beings would serve robot machines as their pets. On Tuesday, Commissioner Rob Manfred addressed questions from reporters on the feasibility of robots replacing umpires at home plate.
According to a report by the San Diego Union-Tribune, the wave of increasing automation is about to put military jobs in jeopardy.
The tech industry in Silicon Valley has disrupted the restaurant industry, thanks to high rent and higher minimum wages.