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In 2018, Las Vegas casino workers organized a strike, and the threatened machine takeover of jobs was a major issue: a Guardian headline from June 2 declared, ‘Robots can’t beat us’: Las Vegas casino workers prep for strike over automation. A deal was struck with MGM, but now the casino sounds like it will renege. […] March 8th, 2019 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, card-dealer robot, immigration, Las Vegas, MGM, robot, smart machine, technological job loss |  Email This Post |  Print This Post It’s disappointing that nobody in official Washington is paying attention to the threat of automation to the human workforce and existing economy. After all, the predictions from experts about the automated future are daunting — remember the worst unemployment rate during the Great Depression was 25 percent, but far worse is forecast for coming decades. […] December 11th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Andrew Yang, automation, caravan, immigration, robot, technological job loss | Email This Post | Print This Post CBS found plenty of amusements at Japan’s World Robot Summit, like an automated ping-pong partner and a mechanical sniffer dog that checks for foot odor. But if you watch closely, the coming social and economic revolution can be seen. Japan is a leader in automation in part because of its slow-growing population (no immigration!), and […] October 21st, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, automation job loss, immigration, Japan, robot, technological job loss, unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post It’s rare to see the downside of automation featured on the front page of a mainstream publication, and Sunday’s Los Angeles Times gave the story a prominent spot just under the masthead: La Times chose to use a local focus rather than national, perhaps thinking that regional analysis might make it more real to […] October 15th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, immigration, job loss, robot, technological job loss, technology | Email This Post | Print This Post Brookings Institute has published a new book on automation titled, The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation, by Darrell M. West (@darrwest). A Brookings link to the book includes the Table of Contents and Chapter One. Chapter One is titled Robots and provides a helpful overview of the smart machines in use now or […] May 10th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, Brookings, Charles Payne, Darrell West, future of work, immigration, robot, technological job loss | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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