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"When labor drives automation, it's usually in service to making the product better, and when capital drives automation, it's usually in service to making more of the product,"
“The robots are coming” needn't be understood as heralding the apocalypse. An automated society in which states and worker-owned enterprises use technology to serve public ends while meeting individual needs is entirely consistent with the good life.
At the Port of Seattle, and others, President Donald Trump's broad tariffs have meant economic uncertainty for veteran workers and put what was once a stable blue-collar career increasingly out of reach for many younger longshoremen.
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.
Facing competition from Vietnam and Cambodia, factories are using automation and surveillance to ramp up production and cut labor costs.
Longshore Deal Secures New Automation Language and Big Pay Bump
The greatest immediate risk presented to humanity by AI is not robotic control of military weapons, but its application within the logic of capitalism—an alignment that will further relegate human needs as secondary to market forces.
A once-in-a-generation convergence of technology and pressure to operate more efficiently has corporations saying many lost jobs may never return.
The ILA will not work a container ship without a crew aboard. Already one company developing these automated ships also plans for automated loading and unloading of cargo from these crew-less ships without workers.
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