Could artificial intelligence create an unemployment crisis?

Ford, Martin R.

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“…1 Trajectories through the two dimensions of digital modernity foundation of a rational, open, secure means of identification and record to enable a dramatic rationalisation of administration, bureaucracy and work (Iansiti and Lakhani 2017). AI might be another example, which on the one hand threatens to disrupt all manner of current methods of work (and other areas, such as warfare) because of its abilities to model, predict and anticipate human behaviour, so bringing with it worries about the unemployment and unrest it might cause (Ford 2013), and on the other promises far greater understanding of human society and interaction, especially as it begins to converge with cognitive psychology and neuroscience (Gershman et al 2015).…”

Section: Inherent Tensions In the Modelmentioning

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The contradictions of digital modernity

O’Hara

2018

AI & Soc

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This paper explores the concept of digital modernity, the extension of narratives of modernity with the special affordances of digital networked technology. Digital modernity produces a new narrative which can be taken in many ways: to be descriptive of reality; a teleological account of an inexorable process; or a normative account of an ideal sociotechnical state. However, it is understood that narratives of digital modernity help shape reality via commercial and political decision-makers, and examples are given from the politics and society of the United Kingdom. The paper argues that digital modernity has two dimensions, of progression through time and progression through space, and these two dimensions can be in contradiction. Contradictions can also be found between ideas of digital modernity and modernity itself, and also between digital modernity and some of the basic pre-modern concepts that underlie the whole technology industry. Therefore, digital modernity may not be a sustainable goal for technology development.

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Section: Inherent Tensions In the Modelmentioning

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The contradictions of digital modernity

O’Hara

2018

AI & Soc

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“…Their attempts express the Buddhist ideology in obtaining an efficient provision of human labour supply while eradicating issues related with orthodox practices in human labour supply with a re-structured process. Apart from that, there was more futuristic viewpoint on human labour supply by Ford (2013;2015). He did mention the pessimistic possibilities going to be occurred in future with the robotic replacement instead of human labour supply and shed red lights on a massive unemployment.…”

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“…In contrasts, pessimists Ford (2013;2015) complain that massive bands of the labor force will see their employment options mechanized out of existence with a huge unemployment issue in future. Each has a point, but…”

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Human Labour Supply: A Necessary Evil?

Samaranayake

2017

Asian Development Policy Review

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Article HistoryStudy concludes how the human labour supply appears to be a cost but a necessary component. Observations are made through comparative literature and evidences emerged over patterns and symmetries in the middle of orthodox and heterodox discourses of labour-leisure dichotomy. Analysis reveals that the tradeoffs between leisure with various types of labour supply appear as a cost, simply an evil which can reduce leisure, comfort of people or profits of a firm. In terms of human capital formation; having full time higher education generates "Twin Cost" on graduate employee. As in Buddhist economics ideology, there is a complementary relationship between work and leisure. Creating a better surface for work can reduce some level of cost of workers. Along with Marxist viewpoint on labour supply, since there is a surplus value for labour, it may generate a cost for the workers. Somehow new technological development may create some freedom for workers while utilizing the dead labour. However, along with futuristic ideology, an advanced society with an intensity to zero labour supply with robotics replacements, human beings are going to be deceased; not in terms of their lives but due to termination of their values in future.Contribution/Originality: This study contributes in the existing literature by focusing on the evolution of both orthodox and heterodox perspectives of labour-leisure dichotomy leaning towards composite argument as necessity and evilness of human labour supply.

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“…El sector periodístico es consciente de que debe adaptarse a los nuevos tiempos y aplicar esta técnica a los métodos tradicionales de redacción de noticias (Hansen et al, 2017), ya que permitirá a los redactores alejarse de las tareas más repetitivas y rutinarias y desarrollar otras más creativas y que aporten valor al trabajo periodístico (Ford, 2013). Su uso, por tanto, continuará en los próximos años (Eudes, 2014; Newman, 2018), a pesar de sus limitaciones tecnológicas (Dörr, 2016), de los riesgos éticos (Weeks, 2014), empresariales y laborales (Murcia-Verdú; Ufarte-Ruiz, 2019), y de las dudas que genera sobre la autoría (Montal; Reich, 2017; Thurman; Doerr; Kunert, 2017) y la calidad de los contenidos (Sandoval-Martín et al, 2019).…”

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Percepción de docentes universitarios, estudiantes, responsables de innovación y periodistas sobre el uso de inteligencia artificial en periodismo

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2020

EPI

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Se analiza la percepción que existe en el sector profesional y académico sobre el uso de inteligencia artificial en periodismo. El trabajo se ha desarrollado a lo largo de once meses mediante entrevistas a responsables de innovación de varios medios nacionales (N=10) y a docentes universitarios (N=10) y cuestionarios a periodistas (N=251) y a estudiantes de Periodismo y Comunicación Audivosiual (N=194). Los resultados muestran una coincidencia en ambos discursos en que esta tecnología no tendrá un impacto negativo sobre el mercado laboral periodístico. También existe consenso en que la calidad de las noticias automatizadas presenta algunas carencias importantes, así como en la necesidad de apostar por una sólida formación de los periodistas que integre el uso de las tecnologías emergentes.

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Could artificial intelligence create an unemployment crisis?

Abstract: Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics will have significant implications for evolving economic systems.

Cited by 45 publications

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The contradictions of digital modernity

The contradictions of digital modernity

Human Labour Supply: A Necessary Evil?

Percepción de docentes universitarios, estudiantes, responsables de innovación y periodistas sobre el uso de inteligencia artificial en periodismo

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