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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. At risk (kind of). Department of Commerce, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S.

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Rethinking The Impact AI Might Have On Work

The Horizons Tracker

It’s been a decade since Oxford’s Frey and Osborne published their hugely influential paper on the susceptibility of jobs to automation. The researchers developed a model that is able to calculate this cost-effectiveness at both the firm and economy levels. “We find that at today’s costs U.S.

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The Post-Pandemic Dynamic: What’s Changed in L&D with Virtual Learning and AI Advancements?

Experience to Lead

Let’s break down recent developments in L&D since the pandemic and the rise of AI, so that we might better navigate the world of today and tomorrow. Trying to get the best of both worlds As public health protocols allowed, organizations transitioned from full-remote work to hybrid models, extending this shift to Learning and Development.

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Empowering Digital Societies - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

A collaborative research project has launched in New Zealand to explore some of these larger questions of how governments can harness digital technologies to develop smarter, more inclusive societies. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and data analytics, it’s a metaphor with strong connections to the real thing.

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How Many of Your Daily Tasks Could Be Automated?

Harvard Business Review

It has also has inspired scholarship by academics such as Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University, who estimate that 47% of occupations in the United States could be automated within 20 years, and David Autor of MIT, who argues that the ability of machines to take on human jobs is vastly overstated.

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“Government Entrepreneur” is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

But imagine if the road that led to the Seattle City Council ridesharing hearings this month — with rulings that sharply curtail UberX, Lyft, and Sidecar’s operations there — had been a vastly different one. It still operates today. What would it take? Answer: more public entrepreneurs. Public entrepreneurship is entrepreneurship.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

These broad components were: Citizens/People Components: the four components in this category are: inclusivity, environment and quality of life, state of talent and the human condition, talent development.