We’ve been warned of a looming AI ‘jobpocalypse’ for years. But many Australian businesses are still figuring out how to make the technology useful.
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A new survey by sociologists assessed public attitudes and perceptions about the AI-related threat of job displacement.
Wealthier South Africans, particularly those in urban areas, are more optimistic about emerging technologies than those in low-income and rural areas.
The use of AI and wearable technologies to speed up work and monitor employees is becoming more widespread in businesses around the world.
Human staff accumulate data as ‘expertise’ instead of giving it to their employers. For profit-chasing retailers, that’s a problem AI can eliminate.
An expert explains what she learned from analysing 10 books on the future of work.
Self-service technologies — like self-checkouts or government service kiosks — are decreasing interactions with other people. This may affect our politics and sense of community.
The 1960s cartoon The Jetsons got three things about the future very wrong: the place of women in the workforce, how much we will work, and where we work.
AI is already on the payroll in many workplaces – how well human employees interact with it can depend a lot on their existing attitudes and anxieties.
Top contributors
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Workplace Futures Research Lead, Centre for the New Workforce, Swinburne University of Technology
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Postdoctoral fellow, Western University
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Professor of Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology
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Adjunct Fellow, Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Leadership and Organisation, King's College London
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Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Senior lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Professor in Information Systems, The University of Queensland
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PhD Student, Sociology, University of Toronto
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Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto