Basic income after automation? That’s not how capitalism works!
The claim: Robotics will lead to mass unemployment. The reality: Productivity will grow, but not idle or leisure time.
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What to do when machines take our jobs? Give everyone free money for doing nothing
A Universal Basic Income is essentially free money for everyone, no strings attached. And it could be the perfect response to rising unemployment due to automation.
Are we ready for Robotopia, when robots replace the human workforce?
In a world where robots work better than humans, how will we cope? We need to rethink our jobs-based economy.
A post‑work economy of robots and machines is a bad Utopia for the left
A Brave New World of worklessness and a universal wage is attracting advocates across the political spectrum.
Banking sector will be ground zero for job losses from AI and robotics
The UK’s biggest industry is poised to lose a big chunk of its (human) workers.
Does the next industrial revolution spell the end of manufacturing jobs?
Smart machines are about to usher in the age of Industry 4.0.
How to make robots that we can trust
We are witnessing dramatic advances in the deployment of autonomous systems, but are we designing robots that can be trusted?
If Labor wins, he is set to become treasurer. So who is Jim Chalmers?
Intellectual and a talented communicator, Chalmers may turn out to be a far more innovative politician than his current cautious election rhetoric suggests.
Why working remotely feels so jarring – according to philosophy
Our working lives provide us with something more important than a pay cheque.
Robots and AI could soon have feelings, hopes and rights … we must prepare for the reckoning
We have long believed ourselves to be the only intelligent beings on Earth – that may soon change and the consequences will be dramatic for law, politics and society in general.