The domestic robot gets closer with Figure 01, powered by Open AI. But does automated servitude degrade our humanity? Or liberate it? TECHNOLOGY, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, NEW ECONOMICS, REGEN ECONOMIESpat kane14 March 2024robots, automation, domesticity, choresComment
Alternative Editorial: AI is a game-changer for good or bad A/UK EDITORIAL, ARTISTS, TECHNOLOGY, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITYpat kane29 January 2023artificial intelligence, AI, automationComment
We were told the robots were taking over. We didn't realise it was to make us humans work harder. Yet is it also right to make them our slaves? FUTURES, NEW ECONOMICS, TECHNOLOGY, INGENUITY, BUILD THE ECONOMYpat kane10 July 2021automation, robotics, artificial intelligenceComment
"Every person whose job is obsolete because of automation will have ten jobs waiting for them", says Cory Doctorow. Why? Climate crisis ENVIRONMENTALISTS, TECHNOLOGYpat kane8 September 2020automation, employment, green new dealComment
Algorithms don't define "creditworthiness" or "high-risk individuals". Data scientists do. Shouldn't citizens have a say? DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGYpat kane1 February 2020artificial intelligence, design ethics, design thinking, automationComment
Why the robot revolution should be propelled by the aspiration to leisure, not the dominance of work, says Robert Skidelsky NEW ECONOMICS, 4TH SECTOR, TECHNOLOGYpat kane22 December 2019robots, automation, leisureComment
How we can best prepare for job automation - and for the strengthening of our communities too FUTURESpat kane7 January 2019automation, work, robotsComment
If robots and A.I. are replacing human jobs outright, should we tax them when they do? BIG PICTURE, FUTURES, NEW ECONOMICSpat kane9 September 2018automation, artificial intelligence, robots
"Do you trust this computer?" AI comes after the middle-class professions, in a new documentary FUTURESpat kane9 April 2018automation, artificial intelligence
Post-Work: Nick Srnicek interviewed about A.I. as a social good - and why your dishwasher has an agenda NEW ECONOMICS, FUTURES, 4TH SECTORpat kane4 April 2018automation
Stephen Hawking knew the score on how to use automation for human good BIG PICTURE, FUTURES, GLOBALISTSpat kane14 March 2018automation, stephen hawking
Tax the robots? California (and Bill Gates) is thinking about it. Should we? FUTURES, NEW ECONOMICS, 4TH SECTOR, CREATIVE INDUSTRIESpat kane6 September 2017robots, automation, bill gates, california, basic income
How robotics can improve our understanding of disability 4TH SECTOR, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTpat kane6 May 2017robots, automation, disability
"No one should do work that can be done by a machine" FUTURES, 4TH SECTOR, NEW ECONOMICSpat kane26 April 2017automation, robots, work