Fears of automation are at the heart of the dockworkers strike

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Dockworkers picket near the Port of Miami entrance and demand a new labor contract.
Dockworkers picket near the Port of Miami entrance and demand a new labor contract.

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Why workers who lose their jobs to AI will be better off than the Midwest manufacturing employees of two decades ago

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The loss of manufacturing jobs in recent decades has brought about economic hardships for many Americans. AI job displacement won't play out quite the same way.

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AI won't replace human workers, but 'people that use it will replace people that don't,' AI expert Andrew Ng says

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Andrew Ng is an AI optimist.

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Walmart just showed off its new AI-powered warehouses — take a look inside

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The exterior of a recently completed grocery distribution center in Lancaster, Texas.

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Walmart says automating its warehouses will actually give workers longer careers

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Inside a Walmart warehouse.

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Elon Musk predicts universal basic income will take off once AI replaces workers. Read his 8 best quotes about UBI.

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Elon Musk

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Automation Never Tasted So Good

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Walmart sees a bonkers improvement when it automates a warehouse

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An automated distribution center delivers twice the throughput with half the staff, Walmart's CFO said.

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Jobseekers and recruiters are all using AI. It's chaos.

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AI Robots battling it out amidst a flurry of falling resumes
Jobseekers and recruiters are both using AI to get a leg up. It's a battle of the bots.

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When Josh Holbrook, a software engineer in Alaska, was laid off in January, he didn't expect to spend too much time looking for a new job. He certainly didn't think he'd need to relearn the job-hunt process.

10 Modern ‘Mechanical Turks’: When Automation Is Just Humans in Disguise

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Amazon’s grocery stores ditched their “Just Walk Out” technology on Tuesday, though it turned out the automated checkout system included 1,000 reviewers in India.

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