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Automation

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Self-driving vehicles

George Hotz: From Self-Driving Cars to Robots That Cook and Clean

The visionary hacker on how he plans to "solve A.I." and why he thinks this will be a "decade of decentralization."

Justin Monticello | 8.23.2021 9:45 AM

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Robots

Bill de Blasio's Proposed 'Robot Tax' Is Completely Unnecessary, Just Like His Candidacy

Forcing future Americans to do manual labor that could be automated isn't "saving" them from job losses. It's trapping them in jobs that could be made more efficient, more productive, and more rewarding. 

Eric Boehm | 9.9.2019 2:30 PM

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Oregon

Union-Backed Ballot Initiative Would Limit Grocery Stores to 2 Self-Checkout Machines

The Oregon AFL-CIO argues that self-checkout machines are costing jobs and increasing social isolation.

Christian Britschgi | 9.6.2019 1:25 PM

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Basic Income

Andrew Yang: The Capitalist Candidate Championing a Universal Basic Income

The 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful is running on a "Freedom Dividend" plan which promises a $1,000 per month UBI.

Billy Binion | 4.19.2019 4:50 PM

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Law & Government

Meet the Robot Lawyer Fighting Fines, Fees, and Red Tape

DoNotPay is launching a "denial of service attack on the legal system to make it better."

Justin Monticello | 9.20.2018 1:14 PM

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Self-driving vehicles

Uber Fires 100 Self-Driving Car Operators After Fatal Crash

After a fatality involving one of its autonomous cars, Uber is replacing 100 of its monitors with 55 technical specialists to improve feedback.

Nikhil Sridhar | 7.13.2018 5:45 PM

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Robots

Autonomous Warbots Could Be More Moral Than Human Soldiers

A preemptive ban risks being a tragic moral failure rather than an ethical triumph.

Ronald Bailey | 11.10.2017 2:40 PM

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Minimum Wage: Bad for Humans, Good for Robots

Outlawing cheap labor comes with a lot of disastrous consequences.

Andrew Heaton and Sarah Siskind | 9.7.2017 2:30 PM

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Robots

Good News: Robots Will Steal Only 9 Percent of Jobs, Not 38 Percent Says New Study

Whether automation produces net job losses depends on the relative sizes of its job-creation and job-destruction effects.

Ronald Bailey | 9.5.2017 4:35 PM

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Future

Armless Droid Calls Cops After Being Assaulted by Drunken Man

The future of human-robot relations is silly and sensible, not sinister.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.10.2017 6:00 AM

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Robots

Are Robots Going to Steal Our Jobs?

Many technologists think so, but economists aren't so easily convinced.

Ronald Bailey | 6.6.2017 6:00 AM

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Basic Income

The Indestructible Idea of the Basic Income

Is this the only policy proposal Tom Paine, Huey Long, Milton Friedman, Timothy Leary, and Sam Altman can agree on?

Jesse Walker | 6.3.2017 12:00 AM

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