Rise of the robots : technology and the threat of a jobless future

By M. Ford. 2015

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Artificial Intelligence as Augmenting Automation: Implications for Employment (2020, background): “For instance, a number of driving occupations are at risk of disappearing (Ford, 2015).”
Should we fear the robot revolution? (The correct answer is yes) (2018, unknown): “(Warren Bennis, management consultant) There is a growing perception that advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics will radically transform the workplace in upcoming decades (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014; Ford, 2015).”
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Work (2018, unknown): “…the negative labor market consequences of “brilliant” and highly productive new technologies set to replace labor (e.g., Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2014; Ford 2016), the real danger for labor may come not from highly productive but from “so-so” automation technologies that are just productive enough…”
The Forthcoming Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution: Its Impact on Society and Firms (2017, background): “First, as unskilled and semiskilled labour will be replaced by computers and robots there will be no reason for firms to move their production to developing nations to exploit their cheap supply of labour as they can achieve the same or cheaper costs utilizing AI technologies, thus increasing the tr”
The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Issues and Implications for Career Research and Practice (2018, background): “One very prominent fear emerging from these envisioned changes is that automation and robots will gradually take over much of the work currently performed by humans (Ford, 2015).”
Digitalisation of the Economy and its Impact on Labour Markets (2016, background): “The very fact that this service is economically viable should give you some idea of the wage level for this kind of work’ (Ford 2015 : 125).”
Business intelligence & analytics in management accounting research: Status and future focus (2018, background): “Furthermore, there is the question of how big data is used to predict and modify human behaviour through social media interactions and real-time adjustments of service offerings (Lycett, 2013; Zuboff, 2013) as a means to produce revenue and market control (Ford, 2016).”
Probing Precarious Work: Theory, Research, and Politics (2017, background): “An ominous trend for many workers is the increasing use of automation and technological innovations to substitute capital for labor in numerous jobs, especially manual and non-manual routine jobs, as Autor, Katz, and Kearney (2006) and Ford (2015), among others, have argued.”
The Employment Consequences of Robots: Firm-Level Evidence (2020, unknown): “This technology-based labor substitution may displace a significant fraction of the overall workforce despite generating productivity gains (Acemoglu and Restrepo 2017, Autor and Salomons 2017, Ford 2015).”
The Society of Algorithms (2021, background): “No one is invulnerable: Technology also penetrates and deskills management roles, such as taxi dispatch or shift scheduling (e.g., Brynjolfsson & McAfee 2014, Ford 2015).”