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Bill Pugliano - Getty Images | Robot Arms weld a vehicle on the assembly line.

from: The New York Times | By DAVID H. AUTOR AND DAVID DORN

In the four years since the Great Recession officially ended, the productivity of American workers — those lucky enough to have jobs — has risen smartly. But the United States still has two million fewer jobs than before the downturn

Labor Relations

Robot Workers: Coexistence Is Possible

Illustrations by Roberto Parada

by Eric Drum in Mother Jones

Smart machines probably won't kill us all—but they'll definitely take our jobs, and sooner than you think.

Learning

What Robots Will Talk About on the Robot Internet

The robots are coming. Resistance is futile. “We have a growing mismatch between the speed of technological development and our ability to adapt to it”

Thinking Machines

The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think

Illustration by Andrew Rae; Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

By Sam Grobart, Bloomberg Business Week

Robots confused about what they encounter in the world of humans can now get help online ... Instead of every robot building up its own idiosyncratic catalogue of how to deal with the objects and situations it encounters, they ask for help when confronted with a novel situation, place or thing.

Income Inequality

The End of Labor: How to Protect Workers From the Rise of Robots

by Dan Amira | New York Magazine

Robot using the robot internet in the year 2024

James Somers | The Atlantic

If somebody meant by artificial intelligence the attempt to understand the mind, or to create something human-like, they might say this is some of the only good work that’s ever been done.

Innovation Revolution

Vive le Robot Revolution

Greg Ruffing

Technology used to make us better at our jobs. Now it's making many of us obsolete, as the share of income going to workers is crashing, all over the world. What do we do now?

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by Noah Smith | The Atlantic

Reuters

Source: dedebold/Flickr

Alison Diana | InternetEvolution

In the first nine months of 2013, North American robotics shipments soared to $1.1 billion, according to the Robotics Industries Association. That represents 17,645 robots, up 14.6% in units and 9% in dollars from the same period in 2012