News and articles
Los Angeles Times: Will Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot replace human workers?
Vox: Amazon’s robots are getting closer to replacing human hands
The New York Times: Amazon Pushes Forward with Robots
The Economist: The Return of the Machinery Question
The Economist: Automation and Anxiety
ETF Strategy: Lyxor launches ‘Rise of the Robots’ ETF
Wired: The Future of Your Job in the Age of AI and Robots (video)
TED Conference Blog: Summary of Martin Ford’s 2017 TED Talk
The New York Times, Frank Bruni: The Bitter Backdrop to 2014
Washington Examiner: White House warned of ‘labor collapse’ from robots
PBS Newshour: Three White-Collar Jobs that Robots are Already Mastering
National Geographic: Will the Rise of The Robots Implode the World Economy?
MIT Technology Review: Who Will Own the Robots?
CNN: Will this One-Armed Robot Put You Out of a Job?
Wired: Rise of the Machines: The Future has Lots of Robots, Fewer Jobs for Humans
Mother Jones: These are the Jobs Robots will Take from Humans
The Guardian: Robots are leaving the factory floor and heading for your desk – and your job
The Washington Post: The Robots are Coming
A multi-part series from the Associated Press:
- Recession, Technology Kill Middle Class Jobs
- Can Smart Machines Do Your Job?
- Imagining a Future where Machines have all the Jobs
- Will Smart Machines Create a World Without Work?
The Economist: Robot Co-workers
InfoWorld: Robots are Coming to Take Your Job
Salon: The Internet’s Greatest Disruptive Innovation — Inequality
Los Angeles Times: Automation Accelerates in Retail Sector
Der Spiegel (English): Competing Visions of a Computer-Controlled Future
ComputerWorld: Businesses are adopting robots for new tasks, but will they kill jobs?
InformationWeek: Larry Page and Sergey Brin on Technological Unemployment
Cosmos: Learning to live with robots
FastCompany: Will Robots Kill — or Create — your Next Job?
PC World: Robots Fill New Roles at Work
Slate: Will Robots Steal Your Job?
The Economist: Artificial Intelligence / Luddite Legacy
The Globe and Mail (Canada): “Will computers ever be smarter than us?” and “Thank you for your personal data”
Boston Magazine: Machine Man (A profile of iRobot founder Rodney Brooks)
The Fiscal Times: The Robot Revolution: Your Job May be Next
Forbes (India): Hello Robot, Goodbye Worker
TechCrunch: What If This Is Our Future and A Tale Of Two Countries: The Growing Divide Between Silicon Valley And Unemployed America
Sunday Telegraph (UK): Automation (See “Metal Men” on Page 11).
CQ Researcher “Will Artificial Intelligence Lead to Unemployment?”
Sueddeutsche.de (in German)
TelevisioN Interviews
Bloomberg TV: The Benefits from Robots / AI
CNBC: Should We Fear Robots?
CBS Sunday Morning: After the robots take over, will there be jobs left for us?
CNBC: Is a “Robot Tax” a Good Idea?
Fox Business: Will Robots Take Over Your Job?
CNN: Will A Robot Take Your Job?
CNBC: Rise of the robots, fall of the people?
MSNBC – The Cycle: Are We Being Replaced by Robots?
PBS Newshour: Will Your Job Get Outsourced to a Robot?
Ideas in Action (shown on PBS): Will Robots Take our Jobs?
Radio interviews
CNBC: Robots taking over jobs?
NPR Fresh Air – Attention White-Collar Workers: The Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs
Minnesota Public Radio – Technology and Disappearing Middle Class Jobs
KALW San Francisco – Will Robots Take Your Job?
NPR Interview: “The Dark Side of Watson”
Southern California Public Radio: “Losing your job to a machine”
KGNU Denver/Boulder -“It’s the Economy”
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Book Reviews
Rise of the Robots
New York Times Book Review Podcast – “Welcome to Your Obsolescence”
New York Times Editors’ Choice
Los Angeles Review of Books Review
Architects of Intelligence
A Financial Times Book of the Year for 2018
Forbes: This is the Future of AI According to 23 World-Leading AI Experts
The Verge: When will Artificial General Intelligence be Achieved?
Axios: The Surprisingly Quarrelsome Field of Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Spectrum: Book Review: Architects of Intelligence
Vanity Fair: Inside the Hive Podcast
The Lights in the Tunnel
A Review by the Future of Work Project
Review by The Futurist Magazine
Review in Mediapart (in French)
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