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As AI adoption spreads, CEOs are increasingly using the tech to justify layoffs, or to anticipate layoffs coming in the future.
Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Using AI to Terrorize Their Employees

By Joe Wilkins

As a major contradiction brews between what AI is supposed to do and what it actually does, one software engineer is sounding the alarm.
Artificial Intelligence

Engineer: With AI, “Anybody Whose Job Is Done on a Computer All Day Is Over… It’s Just a Matter of Time”

By Joe Wilkins

As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.
Artificial Intelligence

Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

By Joe Wilkins

The CEO of layaway startup Klarna is claiming that AI is coming for your white-collar jobs — even though such a project didn't work for him.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO Says AI Will Replace So Many Jobs That It’ll Cause a Major Recession

By Noor Al-Sibai

The next time you call your car dealership to schedule a tune-up, the voice on the other end may not belong to a human.
Artificial Intelligence

Car Dealerships Are Replacing Phone Staff With AI Voice Agents

By Noor Al-Sibai

Women in wealthy nations are three times more likely to face heightened levels of automation risk than their male counterparts.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Replacing Women’s Jobs Specifically

By Joe Wilkins

Years after outsourcing marketing and customer service gigs to AI, the Swedish company Klarna is looking to hire its humans back.
Artificial Intelligence

Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

By Joe Wilkins

We may now be nearing the point where humanoid robots are candidates — if not replacements — for human jobs.
Robotics

Humanoid Robots Are Starting to Work Human Warehouse Jobs

By Frank Landymore

Chick-fil-A has an army robots to squeeze citrus for its lemonade, turning the fast food chain's lemonade plant into a veritable lemon party. 
Robotics

Chick-fil-A Using Advanced Squeezing Robots to Conduct Huge Lemon Party

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

By Frank Landymore

The CEO of Amazon Web Services suggested in leaked audio that human devs may not be coding in as little as two years.
Artificial Intelligence

In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says Human Developers Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Daily Beast reports that Boston University suggested its professors should use AI to replace the work of striking graduate students.
Artificial Intelligence

University Leadership Suggest Using AI to Replace Striking Grad Students

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

BMW has signed an unprecedented deal with the robotics firm Figure to bring general-purpose humanoid robots into its factories.
Robotics

BMW Putting Humanoid Robots to Work in Its Factory

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A worker in South Korea was crushed to death by a robot after it failed to tell him apart from the box of vegetables it was handling.
Robotics

Grocery Robot Crushes Robot Inspector to Death

By Victor Tangermann

Gizmodo's owner fired the site's Spanish translators to replace them with automated software. Surprise: the AI is already doing a bad job.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Fires Spanish-Speaking Staff, Replaces Them With AI That Immediately Starts Making Sloppy Mistakes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Axel Springer-owned German tabloid Bild is to replace over a hundred editorial roles with AI, according to a leaked email.
Artificial Intelligence

Major Publishing House to Replace Hundreds of Jobs With AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Workers at an eating disorder crisis hotline unionized. Four days later, those workers were told they'd be replaced with a chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

Eating Disorder Hotline Fires Entire Staff and Replaces Them with a Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In response to the Writer's Guild strike, a guy wants people know to that writing work doesn't matter anymore — ChatGPT can just do it. Nice.
OpenAI

Fury Erupts at Suggestion of Using ChatGPT to Replace Striking Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Anxious about AI taking your job? Per a new BBC report, you're not alone — and frankly, automation worries aren't exactly far-fetched.
Artificial Intelligence

A New Fear Is Spreading: AI Anxiety

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Goldman Sachs wants you to replace your costly human labor force with generative AI. Look on the bright side, though: huge savings.
Artificial Intelligence

Goldman Sachs Salivates at AI’s Potential to Mass Fire Workers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We're not in favor of any jobs going solely to robots. But if any jobs should be automated, it should probably be those of the CEOs.
Artificial Intelligence

The Numbers Are In: Replacing All CEOs With AI Just Makes Sense

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Miso Robotics Flippy 2 robot can be a fry cook mostly on its own, and has already been picked up by a few chains across the country.
Robotics

CEO Brags That Fry Cook Robot Will Replace Obsolete Human Grunts

By Frank Landymore

The Panera Bread fast casual chain has announced that it plans to test out AI at its drive-thru's, bringing us that much closer to the uncanny valley.
Artificial Intelligence

Panera Bread Is Replacing Humans With AI At Drive-Thru Windows

By Noor Al-Sibai

More writers are using AI programs like Sudowrite to create fiction novels faster than ever before. Some support AI writing, some don't.
Artificial Intelligence

Authors Are Starting to Use AI to Quickly Churn Out Novels

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Chipotle has partnered with Miso Robotics to create an AI-powered robot that will make chips for its restaurants instead of humans.
Robotics

Chipotle Unveils Robot Designed to Make Mediocre Food Just Like Humans

By Tony Ho Tran

Sergio’s Restaurant, a restaurant chain in Florida, began using a Servi robot that uses cameras and laser sensors to bring food to the customers’ tables.
Robotics

A Florida Restaurant Got a Robot Waiter and Tips Spiked

By Tony Ho Tran

The Chinese tech and e-commerce giant Alibaba is rolling out delivery robots to replace error-prone, smoke-break-taking human couriers.
Robotics

Alibaba Says Delivery Robots Are Great Because They Don’t Smoke on the Job

By Dan Robitzski

A new mod for "The Witcher 3" uses AI to churn out new lines in an actor's voice, raising serious questions about how automation will impact artists.
Artificial Intelligence

Video Game Voice Actors Alarmed by New AI Voice Technology

By Dan Robitzski

New Tech Could Take Doctors Out of Hospitals Completely
Prosthetics and Devices

New Tech Could Take Doctors Out of Hospitals Completely

By Dan Robitzski

McDonald's has been experimenting with using voice recognition instead of human employees to take orders at some of its drive-thrus.
Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Replaces Drive-Thru Human Workers With Siri-Like AI

By Dan Robitzski

Walmart thought building robots to track stores' inventories would make things easier, but the project ultirmately fell short.
Robotics

Walmart Is Giving Up on Its Inventory Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Would having a robot draw your blood make the process easier? Thanks to engineers at Rutgers University that may soon be an option.
Robotics

Engineers Built an AI-Powered Robot to Take Your Blood

By Jacob Banas

Makr Shakr, the company behind a robot bartender called Toni, says it will offer monthly stipends to displaced workers for every robot it sells.
Robotics

Robot Bartender Developer Wants to Pay the Humans It Replaces

By Dan Robitzski

Future studies researcher Roey Tzezana says workplace automation will mean the destruction of the middle class and the "end of the world as we know it."
Future Society

Futurist Predicts “The End of the World as We Know It”

By Dan Robitzski

Four Japanese people agreed to give up their privacy and let cameras record their every move at home for a month for 200,000 yen, or $1,830.
Future Society

This Company Is Paying People $1,830 to Film Them Constantly

By Kristin Houser

Switching to a four-day workweek boosted productivity by nearly 40 percent at Microsoft Japan, a sign that the change could benefit employers and employees.
Future Society

Microsoft Japan Tried a Four-Day Workweek. Productivity Spiked.

By Kristin Houser

The AI systems now used to grade essays on standardized tests in 21 states are deeply flawed, according to a new Motherboard investigation.
Artificial Intelligence

21 States Are Using AI to Grade Essays on Standardized Tests

By Kristin Houser

A small survey shows that most Chinese workers would prefer to be managed by an impartial AI algorithm than a human, in a positive twist on job automation.
Future Society

88 Percent of Chinese Workers Would Prefer a Robot Boss

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers created an autonomous roofing drone by strapping a nail gun to an octocopter and using cameras and markers to teach it where to place nails.
Drones

Researchers Strapped a Nail Gun to an Autonomous Drone

By Kristin Houser

A pharmacy call center has deployed AI that coaches human employees how to have more empathy with frustrated customers on the phone.
Artificial Intelligence

In a Strange Twist, This AI Tries to Teach Empathy to Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Truck drivers in Missouri are trying to get self-driving trucks banned in the state over concerns that they would get automated out of a job.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Truckers Want to Ban Self-Driving Trucks in Missouri

By Dan Robitzski

Most people would rather lose their job to automation than to another human, according to a newly published study out of Germany.
Future Society

Most People Would Rather a Robot Steal Their Job Than a Person

By Kristin Houser

Just one inning into the "robot umpire" Trackman's major league debut, a human coach decided to pick a fight and got ejected from the game.
Robotics

Baseball Coach Ejected for Fighting With Robot Umpire

By Dan Robitzski

A new op-ed in the New York Times says that everyone can embrace a life of high-tech luxury, as long as the world embraces communism.
Future Society

NYT Calls For “Fully Automated Luxury Communism”

By Dan Robitzski

Walmart executives have great things to say about their new robot workers, but human employees are less than thrilled about them.
Robotics

Walmart Employees Hate Their New Robot Coworkers

By Dan Robitzski

According to a Reuters exclusive, Amazon is rolling out specially-made machines that are capable of boxing up orders — a job "held by thousands."
Future Society

Amazon Now Has Machines to Automatically Box Up Orders

By Victor Tangermann

An analysis of 16 basic income projects concluded that giving people free money simply wouldn't be sustainable for any nation in the long term.
Universal Basic Income

Huge Analysis Finds “No Evidence” Basic Income Is Sustainable

By Kristin Houser

Amazon warehouses could be fully automated in about a decade, but for now, humans are still better than bots at picking merchandise.
Robots and Machines

Amazon Says It Could Have Fully Automated Warehouses in 10 Years

By Kristin Houser

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis wants to make sure that AI is built to serve, not conquer humanity, and wants to make sure important choices aren't automated.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet the Rabbi Fighting Back Against AI Armageddon

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon's AI automatically tracked and fired hundreds of fulfillment center employees for failing to meet productivity quotas.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Used An AI to Automatically Fire Low-Productivity Workers

By Victor Tangermann

Andrew Yang’s Goal: Steer Us Away From a Bleakly Dystopian Future
Universal Basic Income

Andrew Yang’s Goal: Steer Us Away From a Bleakly Dystopian Future

By Victor Tangermann

An employee shares his experience working with Walmart robots, which are supposed to make his job easier but instead add to his workload.
Artificial Intelligence

This Grouchy Employee Hates Walmart’s New Floor-Scrubbing Robots

By Kristin Houser

Walmart is sending autonomous custodial robots to 1,500 stores in a play to cut down on the tasks human employees have to face.
Robotics

Walmart Is Rolling Out Floor-Cleaning Robots in 1,500 Stores

By Dan Robitzski

Israel-based startup Seedo has announced plans to create the world's first automated cannabis farm — and it might not be the last.
Artificial Intelligence

Startup Unveils “World’s First Automated Cannabis Farm”

By Kristin Houser

Austin-based startup Briggo has built a fully automated robot barista capable of filling 100 gourmet coffee orders in one hour.
Robotics

This Robot Can Make as Much Gourmet Coffee as Four Baristas

By Kristin Houser

A new report by Spain's IE University found that a quarter of Europeans would rather be governed by artificial intelligence than a human politician.
Artificial Intelligence

A Quarter of Europeans Trust AI More Than Politicians

By Dan Robitzski

Engineer and author Kevin Morris argues that an "economic singularity" may be coming, where robots and AI can automate all the jobs there are.
Future Society

New Futurist Fear: “Economic Singularity” Could Kill Jobs Forever

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new experiment, people find losing to robots and AI particularly demoralizing, which could have implications for our automated workplaces.
Artificial Intelligence

New Research: People Who Get Defeated By AI Feel Horrible

By Dan Robitzski

Beware of Bots is a new marketing campaign that hacked printers to send out a warning about automation, urging people to switch careers.
Artificial Intelligence

This Guy is Hacking Printers to Warn About Job-Stealing AI

By Dan Robitzski

As robots and AI replace more and more workers, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez argues we need a national safety net to provide for the displaced.
Future Society

AOC: Automation Means “More Time Enjoying the World We Live In”

By Dan Robitzski

2020 Presidential candidate Andrew Yang supports universal basic income
Universal Basic Income

How Universal Basic Income Could Be Affordable, Andrew Yang Explains

By Jacob Banas

The number of robot workers to join the North American workforce increased by 7 percent in 2018, according to the Association for Advancing Automation.
Robotics

North America Put More Robots to Work in 2018 Than Ever Before

By Kristin Houser

CEO Sam Altman: AI might well replace most jobs as we know them today, but the market will be flooded with new "sort of human to human jobs."
Artificial Intelligence

Y Combinator CEO: AI Will Replace Jobs, But Life Will be Awesome

By Victor Tangermann

A fast food AI platform is taking orders at a drive-thru in Colorado, and it could be the latest sign that restaurants are prepared to lean on automation.
Artificial Intelligence

This Fast Food Drive-Thru Is Now Using AI to Take Orders

By Kristin Houser