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W
ork means everything to us Americans. For centuries – since, say, 1650 – we’ve believed that it builds character (punctuality, initiative, honesty, self-discipline, and so forth). We’ve also believed that the market in labour, where we go to find work, has been relatively efficient in allocating opportunities and incomes. And we’ve believed that, even if it sucks, a job gives meaning, purpose and structure to our everyday lives – at any rate, we’re pretty sure that it gets us out of bed, pays the bills, makes us feel responsible, and keeps us away from daytime TV.

These beliefs are no longer plausible. In fact, they’ve become ridiculous, because there’s not enough work to go around, and what there is of it won’t pay the bills – unless of course you’ve landed a job as a drug dealer or a Wall Street banker, becoming a gangster either way.
https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the-problem

The Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford / Humans Need Not Apply by Jerry Kaplan

Silicon Valley is out to disrupt entire industries – because that’s where the big money is to be made. How long before we lose our jobs?

In 1960, IBM realised that its own customers were alarmed by its new data-processing equipment. If these machines really were as clever as advertised, wouldn’t they threaten the jobs of the office managers buying them? In response, IBM came up with a phrase that still expresses what many of us think of as a central technological truth. “Computers,” it assured its clients, “can only do what they are programmed to do.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/01/the-rise-of-robots-humans-need-not-apply-review

Über das Buch

https://www.wired.de/collection/life/zukunft-der-arbeit-werden-roboter-den-menschen-die-jobs-wegnehmen

Japanese company replaces office workers with artificial intelligence

A future in which human workers are replaced by machines is about to become a reality at an insurance firm in Japan, where more than 30 employees are being laid off and replaced with an artificial intelligence system that can calculate payouts to policyholders.

Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance believes it will increase productivity by 30% and see a return on its investment in less than two years. The firm said it would save about 140m yen (£1m) a year after the 200m yen (£1.4m) AI system is installed this month. Maintaining it will cost about 15m yen (£100k) a year.

The move is unlikely to be welcomed, however, by 34 employees who will be made redundant by the end of March.

The system is based on IBM’s Watson Explorer, which, according to the tech firm, possesses “cognitive technology that can think like a human”, enabling it to “analyse and interpret all of your data, including unstructured text, images, audio and video”.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/05/japanese-company-replaces-office-workers-artificial-intelligence-ai-fukoku-mutual-life-insurance

Stephen Hawking warnt Menschheit vor selbstverschuldetem Untergang

Was ist die größte Gefahr für die Menschheit? Physiker Stephen Hawking glaubt: sie selbst. Eindringlich warnt der 74-jährige Brite seine Mitmenschen vor einem selbst verschuldeten Untergang. Ein Atomkrieg, die Erderwärmung, durch Gentechnik erzeugte Viren und Entwicklungen in Wissenschaft und Technologie gehörten zu den existenziellen Gefahren, sagt Hawking in einem Gespräch der bereits etablierten BBC-Vortragsreihe "The Reith Lectures".
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Stephen-Hawking-warnt-Menschheit-vor-selbstverschuldetem-Untergang-3075237.html