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In the Great Robot Job Takeover, Women Are Less Likely to Suffer Than Men
Fields such as manufacturing and transport tend to be dominated by men.
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Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene
We worry about machines going rogue. What if they went green instead?
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Why American Jobs Have a Higher Risk of Automation Than Jobs in Germany, the UK and Japan
You’ve been warned before—robots are coming for your American job.
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Alexa, Can You Tell Me About GSA's Virtual Assistant Pilot?
The Emerging Citizen Technology Office is trying to help other agencies develop their own AI-powered projects.
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Trump’s Treasury Secretary Says One of the Top Threats to US Jobs Is “Not Even on Our Radar Screen”
He believes it's too remote to even think about
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Nextgov Event: All in on Artificial Intelligence
On Thursday, we’ll explore advancements in AI policies and applications across both civilian government and the national security apparatus.
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Robots Are Coming to Your Home: Here's What to Expect
Robots hitting the market soon might one day be a part of your family.
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Google’s DeepMind Has a Plan for Protecting Private Health Data—From Itself
It's next problem is how to assure hospitals, and the public at large, that patient confidentiality isn’t compromised.
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Robots Won’t Take Your Job—They’ll Help Make Room For Meaningful Work Instead
A dire view of automation excludes a lot of the story.
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A Rogue Robot is Blamed For Human Colleague’s Gruesome Death
Usually when people worry about machines and work, they are concerned automation will take away their livelihoods, not their lives.
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The Optimist’s Guide to the Robot Apocalypse
Widespread unemployment due to technology has never materialized before.
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‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless
It’s often just a fancy name for a computer program.
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MIT’s New Robot Reads Your Thoughts and Knows When It Made a Mistake
Instead of taking over for a computer, typing instructions onto keyboards, or speaking them aloud, what if you could just think them?
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Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus
Training neural networks to identify galaxies could forever change humanity’s perspective of the universe.
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Microsoft’s AI is Learning to Write Code by Itself, Not Steal It
The algorithm would be able to augment its own ability by also looking at potential combinations of code for how a problem could be solved.
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Alphabet’s Hate-Fighting AI Doesn’t Understand Hate Yet
Hate is tricky to teach to software.
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Podcast: How the Government is Putting Artificial Intelligence to Work
While the private sector puts AI to use in eye-catching projects, the government is taking a different path.
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Automation Is Coming For You Too
65 percent of survey respondents agreed that their job was safe from automation.
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China Is Funding Baidu to Take on the US in Deep-Learning Research
The amount of funding was not disclosed.
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