The World Bought About 7,000 Humanoid Robots Last Year. Most of Them Did No Work.
The first industry-wide count of humanoid robots lands in the same week as a "new species" pitch from Figure and a Chinese factory building one every ten minutes. Most of those 7,000 machines were bought to harvest training data, not to do a job. The gap between the spectacle and the deployment is the whole story.
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US researchers find no link between AI adoption and unemployment, and the most exposed roles are seeing the fastest pay rises. Yet British payrolls are shrinking, Singapore retrenchments are climbing, and one Oxford economist thinks civil unrest arrives long before the mass layoffs do.
Read full story →If Machines Do the Work, Who Does the Steering? Two Very Different Answers.
A mathematician argues that keeping AI in check will create more skilled human jobs than there are people to fill them, and could even force the labs to slow down. A writer in Dhaka worries the people with the least control over AI will have the least say. They are circling the same question from opposite ends.
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