scholarly journals Automation and the Future of Work: How Rhetoric Shapes the Response in Policy Preferences

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Jeffrey
Keyword(s):  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Automation and the Future of Work: How Rhetoric Shapes the Response in Policy Preferences

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Jeffrey
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Induced Labor ◽  
Redistributive Policy ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
Redistributive Policies ◽  
The Future

I conduct a survey experiment to test how individuals' preferences for redistributive policies respond to news of their vulnerability to an automation-induced labor market shock. As respondents feel more vulnerable, their preferences for redistributive policies remain constant or decline. However, introducing rhetoric that causes respondents to view automation-induced inequality as unfair increases preferences for several redistributive policies. The effects are pronounced among more-educated respondents - a group expected to increasingly be affected by automation in future. This suggests that, going forward, rhetoric may become increasingly influential in terms of the political viability of a redistributive policy response to automation going forward

The Future of Work and the Changing Workplace

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahesh K. Joshi ◽  
J.R. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Intelligence ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Future ◽  
Market Opportunities

The world of work has been impacted by technology. Work is different than it was in the past due to digital innovation. Labor market opportunities are becoming polarized between high-end and low-end skilled jobs. Migration and its effects on employment have become a sensitive political issue. From Buffalo to Beijing public debates are raging about the future of work. Developments like artificial intelligence and machine intelligence are contributing to productivity, efficiency, safety, and convenience but are also having an impact on jobs, skills, wages, and the nature of work. The “undiscovered country” of the workplace today is the combination of the changing landscape of work itself and the availability of ill-fitting tools, platforms, and knowledge to train for the requirements, skills, and structure of this new age.

Human, AI, Robot Teaming and the Future of Work: Barriers and Opportunities for Advancement

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-66
Author(s):  
Erin K. Chiou ◽  
Eric Holder ◽  
Igor Dolgov ◽  
Kaleb McDowell ◽  
Lance Menthe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Value ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
Global Workforce ◽  
Big Ideas ◽  
The Future ◽  
Barriers And Opportunities ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
And Robotics

Global investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are on the rise, with the results to impact global economies, security, safety, and human well-being. The most heralded advances in this space are more often about the technologies that are capable of disrupting business-as-usual than they are about innovation that advances or supports a global workforce. The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier is one of NSF’s 10 Big Ideas for research advancement. This panel discussion focuses on the barriers and opportunities for a future of human and AI/robot teaming, with people at the center of complex systems that provide social, ethical, and economic value.

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