Key LSI Topic: Tech Unemployment

LSI Faculty Fellow, Yvonne Stevens recently published an article titled Legal Strategies for Technological Unemployment for the ABA’s The SciTech Lawyer. Stevens and LSI Faculty Director, Gary Marchant also co-authored a chapter in the newly released book, Surviving the Machine Age: Intelligent Technology and the Transformation of Human Work.  The book, “examines the current state […]

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March 23, 2017 Calm down.  It’s not Armageddon according to the optimists, writes Sarah Kessler, when discussing the future of human employment.  We’ve been here before, she says, and runs through classic examples of situations that provoked needless fears of an apocalyptic machine conquest.  In fact, historically, those worrisome machines created more jobs albeit different […]

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August 3, 2016 How about a little good, or at least decent, news in the area of technological employment?  Forbes contributor George Anders provides some interesting numbers indicating things are not as bleak as others have suggested.  There are new jobs created by technology but even vintage travel agents are still doing OK.

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June 22, 2016 In an opinion piece titled Disruption or Dispalcement? authors David Beier, Jonathan Krause and Andrew Sullivan consider a centuries-old concern — the fear of technological unemployment — and highlight that future implications of technology on jobs should be considered today.  The authors’ specific focus is on the effects on employment through AI, […]

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January 6, 2016 It is an ongoing debate among economists, historians and other theorists: will automation destroy human jobs?  Some say yes, some no and others say maybe.  “Technological unemployment” as it is often referred to, is a very popular topic and one that we, at the Center, often discuss in class lectures, at conferences […]

Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference 2015: Technological Unemployment

Technological Unemployment From May 26 through May 28, 2015, national and international educators, lawyers, scientists, scholars, ethicists, policy-makers and other government representatives gathered in Scottsdale, Arizona to take part in the Third Annual Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics Conference.  Once again, the conference proved to be a resounding success on all levels […]

Tuesday Triple Trivia for March 10, 2015

3 Questions. 3 Hints. 3 Answers.  Every Tuesday. 1. What is being touted as the biggest future job creator? Hint: Answer: according to at least one writer, John Tamny, “[r]obots will be the biggest job creators in history.”  He claims that “abundant job creation is always and everywhere the happy result of technological advances.”  Given […]

Robots, Unemployment and the Future of Meaningful Lives

By Gary E. Marchant Are robots and computers going to displace many or even most human jobs? And if they do, what will displaced workers do with their time and lives? Those were the themes of the most recent CLSI Doomsday Scenario Study Group meeting on March 5, this time addressing the risks of technological […]

Is Human Employment Doomed?

Listen as four of the nation’s experts, including Gary Marchant,* weigh in on technological unemployment. For more details, including panelists’ biographies, see http://www.meetup.com/London-Futurist…. For other London Futurists Hangouts On Air, see http://londonfuturists.com/hangouts-o…. * Faculty Director, Center for Law, Science & Innovation, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University.