Chicago-based A.I. platform VMock operates in two ways: It's both a recruiting platform and an upskilling platform. Its recruiting system is mostly focused on college students and entry-level workers: Candidates upload résumés to the platform and receive, through A.I. analysis, feedback on their résumés and LinkedIn profiles, as well as targeted job recommendations. Its upskilling platform is currently in use at more than 250 higher education institutions, and by Q2 of 2022 will be made available to companies to help train and potentially transfer existing employees. In the latter program, the process is similar: The A.I. platform analyzes résumés to get a better sense of the skills employees already have, and what areas they might be able to better develop.

Pain is an indispensable tool for survival. The prick of a nail underfoot is a warning that protects you from a deep, dirty wound--and maybe tetanus. The sizzle of a steel skillet is a deterrent against a third-degree burn. As much as it sucks, pain, oddly enough, keeps us from hurting ourselves. It's a luxury that prosthetic users don't have.

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma said society should prepare for decades of pain as the internet disrupts the economy. The world must change education systems and establish how to work with robots to help soften the blow caused by automation and the internet economy, Ma said in a speech to an entrepreneurship conference in Zhengzhou, China. "In the next 30 years, the world will see much more pain than happiness," Ma said of job disruptions caused by the internet. "Social conflicts in the next three decades will have an impact on all sorts of industries and walks of life." It was an unusual speech for the Alibaba co-founder, who tends to embrace his role as visionary and extol the promise of the future.