Blue-collar jobs are gaining popularity as AI threatens office work

Blue-collar jobs are gaining popularity as AI threatens office work

Geoffrey Hinton’s message on a recent podcast about artificial intelligence was simple: “Train to be a plumber.” Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist often called “the Godfather of AI,” said in June what people have now been saying for years: Jobs that include manual labor and expertise are the least vulnerable to modern technology than some other…

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Americans fear AI permanently displacing workers, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

Americans fear AI permanently displacing workers, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

A Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon. Meg Roussos | Bloomberg | Getty Images Americans are deeply concerned over the prospect that advances in artificial intelligence could put swaths of the country out of work permanently, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The six-day poll, which concluded on Monday, showed 71% of respondents said they were concerned that AI will be “putting…

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Cleveland Fed President Hammack expects interest rates to stay on hold ‘for a good while’

Cleveland Fed President Hammack expects interest rates to stay on hold ‘for a good while’

Cleveland Federal Reserve President Beth Hammack said Wednesday that the central bank is weighing threats to both inflation and employment and should keep interest rates on hold as conditions evolve. In a live CNBC interview, Hammack advocated a patient approach to monetary policy as Fed officials watch incoming data for clues about where the U.S….

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