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October 15, 2019   ✎news , brian merchant

Brian Merchant on the invisible automation crisis that's happening right now

Brian Merchant's latest for Gizmodo: "There's an Automation Crisis Underway Right Now, It's Just Mostly Invisible."

❝ What actually happens to workers when a company deploys automation? The common assumption seems to be that the employee simply disappears wholesale, replaced one-for-one with an AI interface or an array of mechanized arms.

Yet given the extensive punditeering, handwringing, and stump-speeching around the “robots are coming for our jobs” phenomenon—which I will never miss an opportunity to point out is falsely represented—research into what happens to the individual worker remains relatively thin. Studies have attempted to monitor the impact of automation on wages on aggregate or to correlate employment to levels of robotization … [Gizmodo.com]


BRIAN MERCHANT is a tech journalist & author of The One Device. Watch him talk about the secret history of the iPhone below, and learn more about booking Bob for your next event today.

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