How to 'Futureproof' Yourself In An Automated World (Terry Gross, Fresh Air podcast)

'New York Times' tech columnist Kevin Roose says we've been approaching automation all wrong. "What we should be teaching people is to be more like humans, to do the things that machines can't do," he says. We talk about misconceptions about A.I, how algorithms decide who gets government assistance, and which jobs are less likely to be automated. His new book is 'Futureproof.'

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-umapt-d72852f

New tax cuts may encourage companies to replace workers with machines - The Hill

We found that these policies have only small effects on job creation and virtually no effect on the earnings of the average worker...
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/433090-new-tax-cuts-may-encourage-companies-to-replace-workers-with-machines

US presidential hopeful: Free money can help save the country from jobs lost to robots - CNBC

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang is running for U.S. president, and he wants to give Americans monthly stipends of $1,000 to prevent widespread unemployment from the looming threat of automation. ....
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/andrew-yang-universal-basic-income-to-protect-jobs-from-automation.html

How cities are addressing the coming job apocalypse - Axios

Congress and the Trump administration have yet to create a coherent policy response to a widely forecast social and economic tsunami resulting from automation, including the potential for decades of flat wages and joblessness. But cities and regions are starting to act on their own.....
https://www.axios.com/cities-act-to-combat-the-job-apocalypse-26aa3509-2aba-4993-b554-2419ccceabe3.html

New Republican tax law lowers the costs of replacing workers with machines

The Republicans gave their “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” a cruel joke of a name, since most of the tax cuts go to corporations that have made it very clear they won’t use the savings to hire more workers. But in industries where jobs could be automated, it’s even worse: companies stand to save money on buying the machines to replace their workers, and to save still more money on firing the workers.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/28/1728174/-New-Republican-tax-law-lowers-the-costs-of-replacing-workers-with-machines

The 'End Of Loyalty' And The Decline Of Good Jobs In America (Terry Gross, Fresh Air)

Author Rick Wartzman says that jobs offering security, decent wages and good benefits are becoming harder to find, in part because of automation, globalization and the weakening of unions.
Interview:
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/05/535626109/the-end-of-loyalty-and-the-decline-of-good-jobs-in-america

Months after Trump's hype, Carrier announces 600 layoffs

Remember how, back before the media caught on to Donald Trump’s habit of announcing he’d “created” jobs that had been long planned or “saved” jobs that either didn’t need saving or weren’t actually saved, his Carrier deal was major headline news? Trump supposedly saved 1,000 jobs from being sent to Mexico, and we were supposed to ignore the fact that many of the jobs being “saved” were never planned to be cut, and the giant tax subsidies he doled out to make that happen, and all the jobs that were still going to Mexico, and the fact that the deal was going to help the company eliminate jobs through automation.

Well, Carrier isn’t in the headlines so much these days, which makes it about time for the asterisks on Trump’s big deal to kick in with a vengeance. Layoffs are officially coming for more than 600 workers at the plant:...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1674263

White flight followed factory jobs out of Gary, Indiana. Black people didn't have a choice

Residents who know the ugliness of racial politics all too well blame automation, not immigrants, for the destruction and despair that Trump promised to fix...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/28/poverty-racism-gary-indiana-factory-jobs?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=219356&subid=22113254&CMP=GT_US_collection

Trump administration is reevaluating Obama era rules for self-driving cars (The Verge)

Transportation secretary issues a challenge to Detroit, Silicon Valley ...
http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/27/14753696/trump-dot-elaine-chao-obama-self-driving-car-guidelines

The real reason Ford abandoned its plant in Mexico has little to do with Trump - The Washington Post

Ford chief executive Mark Fields said Tuesday the automaker was ditching its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expanding a Michigan plant, creating 700 more local jobs.

The next wave of workers in Flat Rock will build mostly self-driving and electric cars, including a hybrid Mustang. Unlike manufacturing roles of decades past, though, the jobs will probably require computer literacy and more than a high school degree.

“The era of the electric vehicle is dawning,” Fields told his employees this week, “and we at Ford plan to be a leader in this exciting future.”

The new employment opportunities — the tickets to the middle class — will not look like the old ones. Economists say auto manufacturing at Ford and beyond will become increasingly automated, resulting in fewer jobs for more highly skilled workers....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/04/the-real-reason-ford-abandoned-its-plant-in-mexico-has-little-to-do-with-trump/?utm_term=.3dfdbc32480b

Carrier says it will spend millions automating Indiana plant, plans to lay off workers Trump ‘saved…

As part of the deal President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence struck with Carrier, the company has promised to make a $16 million investment in its Indianapolis facility — an investment management plans to use on developing technology that will allow them to replace human workers with robots.

The company’s plans were confirmed by Greg Hayes, CEO of United Technologies, Carrier’s corporate parent, during a CNBC interview earlier this week.

“We’re going to… automate to drive the cost down so that we can continue to be competitive,” Hayes said. “Is it as cheap as moving to Mexico with lower cost labor? No. But we will make that plant competitive just because we’ll make the capital investments there. But what that ultimately means is there will be fewer jobs.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/carrier-automation-trump-deal-more-layoffs-db2554f46297#.a1ks1yfji

Candidates Are Talking About Taxes And Trade But Not Workplace Automation

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump laid out his plan for the economy on Monday; Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will take her turn on Thursday.

While candidates are talking about tax rates, tax breaks and trade, they are ignoring an economic issue that soon may matter far more to working Americans: robots.

Economists and business analysts warn that before long, tens of millions of workers will be displaced by technological advances that include robots and artificial intelligence. Just one example: The most common job in most states is "truck driver." What happens when driverless trucks replace them?...
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/10/489490830/presidential-campaigns-are-talking-around-the-robot-in-the-room?ft=nprml&f=1001