#jobs
# tech
The new edict in the office: use our AI, or else.
# tech
A new study from Yale exposes the lie at the heart of the AI bubble.
# tech
Business are lamenting that workers use generative AI to turn in subpar work, despite giving them every incentive to do so.
# tech
Companies are bragging about record-setting layoffs thanks to AI, promising investors astronomical profits. How? They haven't gotten that far yet.
# oddities
Futurists and economists predicted that by now, we'd grind less, innovate more, and have time to enjoy more of our lives. So, what happened?
# politics
Today's typical working hours are a result of politics, compromise, and ideology. Now, some experts are finally asking what science says is the perfect work week, and why.
# tech
Some futurists and entrepreneurs think that artificial intelligence can match people to jobs. Unfortunately, they're underestimating the job seekers while overestimating the AIs.
# tech
AI that identifies faces, vehicles, and reads handwriting is springing from computers, ready to make tedious human work obsolete. But we don't see the tedious human work that goes into training them.
# tech
Universal basic income is pitched as the best possible solution to tens of millions of jobs being taken over by code and machines. But it's another populist bumper sticker solution to a complicated problem.
# tech
Teaching miners to code in hope of giving them a chance to join the tech boom isn't the worst idea. But there's more to a successful tech career than taking a coding class.
# tech
Robots are starting to keep tabs on and fire warehouse workers. And the day they'll be tracking all of us to evaluate our performance and make HR decisions is unsettlingly close.
# longform
Rather than living large in the cities where they've come to rule, tech workers are finding themselves just as priced out as those who blame them for soaring costs of living…
# tech
The experiment to turn laid off coal miners into rockstar programmers has been going on for years now with little to show for it except more right wing rage on social media.
# tech
If you're in a creative, artistic industry, relying on your looks and presence to make a living, computers couldn't possibly come for your job, right? Actually, they can, and here's how.
# tech
Automation is responsible for most jobs lost in the industrial world and could replace as much as two thirds of the developing world's workforce. Why are we still pretending it's decades away?