Last week, Tom Content, the executive director of the Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin, addressed a local Sierra Club group on the subject of how the Wisconsin’s Public Service Commission (PSC) considers requests for data center energy use. He encouraged the audience to submit comments to the PSC by Tuesday, February 17th. Below you will … More The Public Service Commission and Data Warehouses
Some (e.g., Elon Musk and Yuval Harari) have claimed that AI could eliminate the need for humans, at least in terms of the production of goods and services. In “Technology and the Human” MIT labor economist David Autor begs to differ. Autor provides a history of the relationship between technological advances and the role of … More AI and the Changing Role of Labor
Since the industrial revolution in England in the 19th century, many policy makers and the public at large have been concerned about the effects of automation on jobs. For example in 1961, Time magazine published a provocative article entitled “The Automation Jobless,” which posited that efficient machines and productivity improvement would eliminate many low and … More Human vs. Digital Labor: Will The Results This Time Be Different?
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