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Prof. Moshe Vardi - Humans, machines, and the future of work

Published on Mar 30, 2017

Humans, Machines, and Work: The Future is Now

Moshe Y. Vardi
Rice University

Automation, driven by technological progress, has been increasing inexorably for the past several decades. Two schools of economic thinking have for many years been engaged in a debate about the potential effects of automation on jobs: will new technology spawn mass unemployment, as the robots take jobs away from humans? Or will the jobs robots take over create demand for new human jobs?

I will present data that demonstrate that the concerns about automation are valid. In fact, technology has been hurting working Americans for the past 40 years. The discussion about humans, machines and work tends to be a discussion about some undetermined point in the far future. But it is time to face reality. The future is now.

Moshe Y. Vardi is the George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering and Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University. He is the recipient of several awards, including the ACM SIGACT Goedel Prize, the ACM Kanellakis Award, the ACM SIGMOD Codd Award, the Blaise Pascal Medal, the IEEE Computer Society Goode Award, and the EATCS Distinguished Achievements Award. He is the author and co-author of over 500 papers, as well as two books. He is a fellow of several societies, and a member of several academies, including the US National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Science. He holds honorary doctorates from the Saarland University in Germany, Orleans University in France, and UFRGS in Brazil. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Communications of the ACM.

 

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Can Artificial Intelligence stop forced labor?

Published on Jun 25, 2017

Can machine learning stop forced labor and modern slavery? A company thinks its AI can change industries and lead them away from labor violations.

"This Company Built AI to Detect Modern Slavery"

by Ankita Rao
June 19, 2017

 

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Article "Robot Tax – A Summary of Arguments “For” and “Against”"

by Jon Walker
October 20, 2017

 

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Will the marriage relationship disappear in the future?
Marriage is the product of the progress of human society, the marriage system is constantly changing, and the marriage relationship maintains the stability of society. This is no doubt. But will the developing marriage relationship continue as always? Like Western Europe and North America, many countries have more than half of the population living alone. If they do not enter marriage, will the future marriage relationship disappear? It doesn't necessarily disappear, but it will definitely be diverse.
Virtual sex is a new invention in the era of artificial intelligence. It is a variety of forms, from life-size sex doll to remote control or video. It is the innovation of sex, and it is also the safest and cleanest way to sex in the AIDS era. In many countries and regions where the gender ratio is not balanced if sex robots can solve some problems, this is also a way to get out...... realistic love doll(read more)

 

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"3 Questions: Thomas Malone and Daniela Rus on how AI will change work"
MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future releases research brief "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work."

January 21, 2021