The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2023

While the furor around robots taking our jobs has largely died down in recent years (not least due to the lack of any real evidence that it’s happening), it remains inevitable that the introduction of new technologies will cause disruption in the labor market. Across four categories of jobs, there were some noticeable differences.

Technology 122

Technology Osborne Skills Learning-by-Doing 122

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The last few weeks have been abuzz with news and fears (well, largely fears) about the impact chatGPT and other generative technologies might have on the workplace. Indeed, a report from the company itself suggested that “most” jobs will be at risk in some way due to their technology. job market.

Productivity 111

Productivity Products Osborne Altman 111

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 21, 2022

While the flurry of stories on the topic seems to have accelerated in recent years, especially since Frey and Osborne’s notorious 2013 study of the topic, the evidence to date is that robots generally haven’t been “taking our jobs” at all. Complementary investment.

Policies 75

Policies Technology Osborne Incentives 75

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market. Missing out. Societal wellbeing.

Osborne 117

Osborne Report Marketing Transportation 117

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2019

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. Such statistics have prompted some researchers to propose an optimum working time , from a productivity perspective at least.

Osborne 74

Osborne Long-term Proposal Technology 74

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Osborne, researchers at the Oxford Martin School, published a paper estimating that 47% of all U.S. Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work. ” Still, the model is conceptual.

Technology 8

Technology Skills Deming Osborne 8

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2019

Whilst the likes of the Frey and Osborne paper predicted a pretty widespread demolition of 47% of all jobs, the reality is that those with low-skilled, routine jobs are far more at risk. Far from being a destroyer of jobs therefore, what technology does seem to do is help inequality between those with skills and those without.

Technology 85

Technology Osborne Education Skills 85