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Fox News: 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Examines the Automation Issue

The presidential election of 2016 had zero mention of the coming automation threat, so the appearance of tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang as a 2020 presidential candidate was a hopeful sign that America might be alerted to the mass unemployment that is predicted for the future by numerous experts.

Andrew Yang discussed his presidential campaign on Fox […]

Automation Endangers Future Jobs Economy, while Low-Skilled Foreigners Flood Open Border

Forbes provides a review of expert opinions about how the new automation/AI is going to roll out regarding the jobs economy over the next years. It notes the dire early predictions of mass unemployment, but tries to provide a balance with more upbeat forecasts of new jobs being created in the tech economy.

Forbes also mentioned […]

L.A. Times Promotes Illegal Immigration as Helpful to Guatemala

Sunday’s Los Angeles Times has an upbeat front-page article about a Guatemalan town that has been transformed for the better by illegal immigration. The residents love America for its jobs and free stuff, shown by a “proliferation of U.S. flags” and new houses built in a style called “remittance architecture.”

Indeed, the money sent back as […]

Self-Driving Car Introduction Will Be Postponed

Serious technical difficulties regarding the safety of autonomous vehicles have been noticed by the executives who run automotive development, according to the New York Times.

Apparently, the real world of city streets has proved to be more complicated than the simple suburbs of the Silicon Valley area, where initial self-driving tests were run.

Below, Google’s 2014 prototype […]

Robots May Replace 20 Million Manufacturing Jobs by 2030

There’s a new automation report out, forecasting major job loss around the world from robots. The Oxford Economics study focuses on the manufacturing sector, which is what makes some economies run in Third World nations lacking economic diversity, and political instability may result.

Oxford Economics wants you to register your business on its website to get the […]

Los Angeles Times Celebrates Sikh Truck Drivers

The LA Times has definitely drunk deep from the Diversity delusion, believing it to be the source of virtue and the cure for evil. Too bad.

Often the Times promotes hispanics as being superior to crass, meanie Americans who built the country that the world is invading by the thousands daily.

But on Saturday, the Tribe of […]

Robot Dishwasher Promises Less Human Scrubbing Will Be Done in Restaurants

Dishwasher seems like a perfect job for newbie unskilled immigrants: English is not required and training is probably an hour, max. It’s one of the more basic jobs. In fact, an open-borders booster website says, Immigrant Dishwashers Do the Jobs Americans Don’t Want, so we spoiled citizens apparently need foreigners to keep our plates clean.

But […]

Florida Faces Self-Driving Trucks in the Near Future

Self-driving trucks have been in basic test mode for several years now — meaning a human is present behind the wheel — but now Florida moving toward full auto.

The founder of Starsky Robotics, Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, appeared on Fox Business recently and remarked, “We’ve been testing on Florida roads with people in the cab for couple […]

re:MARS Attendee Notes Future Job Loss from Automation and A.I.

There has been a lot of tech news coming out of Amazon’s inaugural re:MARS event in Las Vegas last week, some already noted here (Jeff Bezos Predicts Advanced Robot Hands in a Decade).

Below, billionaire Amazon owner Jeff Bezos chats up technology at his re:MARS conference.

Many reports from attendees centered around all the sparkly new automation […]

Jeff Bezos Predicts Advanced Robot Hands in a Decade

Amazon has presented its re:MARS conference in Las Vegas over the last few days, discussing new tech advances in robotics, AI and other topics. For example, actor Robert Downey Jr. announced a project to clean up the environment using robots which he thinks could largely do the job within ten years or so.

Jeff Bezos — […]

Women Face Job Loss from Automation

This is a somewhat curious article from the Wall Street Journal because of course women will lose employment when automation takes hold since many millions of women work. The piece uses a new McKinsey study, The Future of Women at Work, that specifically notes, “Women and men face a similar scale of potential job losses […]

Warehouse Work Is Increasingly Done by Robots

A major reason why Amazon honcho Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world ($132B in 2018) was his early adoption of robots in his warehouses — see my 2016 article Amazon Robotics in The Social Contract for background.

Below, the Kiva robots of Amazon scoot under the appropriate rack of merchandise and bring it […]

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