Is Your Next Co-worker a Robot?

Faculty Fellow and professor at the School of Computing and Information Technology at the University of Wollongong Katina Michael was featured on Talking Technology earlier this year. She discussed the impact that robotics and automation may have on society and the economy. These [technologies] are here now. This is not a 2050 issue. In 2050, half of […]

Wednesday Web Watch for October 29, 2014

Law lag.  We hear about it all the time, as we continually move to resolve cutting-edge issues involving avant-garde technologies.  The oft-discussed concern is whether we can effectively use laws applied to early 21st Century technologies to regulate novel, emerging systems.   Are they horses of the same color?  “No” says Ryan Calo,”[t]oday software can […]

Wednesday Web Watch for August 13, 2014

It appears undisputed that AI and robotics will be an integral part of our future with an across the board impact on our daily lives, including employment.  The question is, how much of an impact?  Experts are divided.  Aaron Smith and Janna Anderson in an article entitled AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs published […]