1363 Results From "automation"

A new study from MIT estimates that 11.7 percent of the American workforce could be replaced with today's AI systems.
Future Society

More Than 20 Million Americans’ Work Can Be Replaced with Today’s AI, MIT Study Says

The student feared that an AGI would imminently wipe us out — but experts don't think we're anywhere close to building such a powerful model.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Student Drops Out Because She Says AGI Will Kill Everyone Before She Can Graduate

Amazon will soon have as many robots as it does humans plugging away at its warehouses, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Robotics

Robots Are About to Outnumber Humans At Amazon Warehouses

Google's former chief business officer, Mo Gawdat, warned that AI could soon replace white-collar jobs, including CEOs.
Google

Former Google Exec Warns That If You Have a Good Job Now, You Should Be Terrified of AI

Western executives warn that China's heavily roboticized manufacturing industry could quickly leave the West behind.
Robotics

Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China

MIT economist David Autor is warning that AI could create a "Mad Max" scenario, in which the job market becomes dominated by cheap labor.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Economist Warns AI Is Poised to Turn Economy Into “Mad Max” Scenario

Anthropic let its Claude chatbot run a tiny, automated "shop" inside its San headquarters — and the results were nothing short of hilarious.
Anthropic

Anthropic Let an AI Agent Run a Small Shop and the Result Was Unintentionally Hilarious

New data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicates that all ten automated driving deaths since May involved Teslas.
Tesla

Overwhelming Majority of Automated Driving Deaths Caused by Tesla Vehicles

Zuckerberg is dreaming up a utopia in which superintelligent AIs benevolently stop short of taking over everybody's jobs, critics say.
Meta

There’s a Very Basic Flaw in Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for Superintelligent AI

SAP chief finance officer Dominik Asam didn't mince words when asked what the end result of his company's AI usage would be.
Artificial Intelligence

SAP Exec: Get Ready to Be Fired Because of AI

Chinese robotics manufacturing is far outpacing the rest of the world, with over 276,000 robots going online between 2022 and 2023 alone.
Robotics

Experts Alarmed by China’s Enormous Army of Robots

Amazon engineers saying they're being forced to use AI while being told to do more work on even tighter deadlines.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Programmers Say What Happened After Turn to AI Was Dark

Researchers at Microsoft have tried to figure out which jobs are most and least likely to be replaced by generative AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Releases List of Jobs Most and Least Likely to Be Replaced by AI

Amazon uses over 750,000 robots that are impressive in some respects, but also struggle to perform simple tasks that a human could easily do.
Robotics

Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human Workers

At a conference alongside Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested that any AI productivity gains will leave us working more, not less.
Elon Musk

Nvidia CEO Says Instead of Taking Your Job, AI Will Force You to Work Even Harder

Meta-formerly-Facebook has deactivated automated systems that proactively tracked and limited the spread of viral conspiracies.
Future Society

Facebook Shuts Down Machine Learning Systems for Identifying Viral Hoaxes

Marc Andreessen recently argued that the AI revolution will take over for all jobs, except for his, coincidentally.
Artificial Intelligence

Top Venture Capitalist Says AI Will Replace Pretty Much All Jobs Except His, Which Relies on His Unique Genius

Workforce reductions are no longer an admission that companies are struggling — CEOs are using them to boast about their investments in AI.
Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Are Publicly Boasting About Reducing Their Workforces With AI

A new benchmark shows that AI agents are embarrassingly terrible at doing remote work tasks -- which is bad news for the AI economy.
Anthropic

A New Paper Tested AI’s Ability to Do Actual Online Freelance Work, and the Results Are Damning

CEO Jensen Huang has an ominous warning for the labor market, which comes just after Nvidia became the most valuable company in history.
Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says He Has Plans to Either Change or Eliminate Every Single Person’s Job With AI