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Damn Girl, You've Got a High AQ

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Editor's note: This is a guest post by Natalie Fratto, VP of Early Stage Practice at Silicon Valley bank. On the walk back from her high school, Max drops by the corner bodega to pick up a NeuroStim pill -- a prescription neuro-plasticity stimulator. Neurostim will accelerate her brain's ability to create new synaptic pathways, helping her quickly learn new behaviors and spot new connections when exposed to rapidly changing stimuli. The AEI is a standardized test, implemented 10 years ago in place of the SAT. It has become a globally accepted metric for aptitude and projected performance in the modern workplace.


India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs

Engadget

As self-driving cars are being tested everywhere from the US to South Korea, Germany to Australia, reports today make it clear that it won't be happening in India. The country's transport and highways minister, Nitin Gadkari told reporters today, "We won't allow driverless cars in India. I am very clear on this." Rather, the minister's rejection of self-driving vehicles is about the jobs they would take away from drivers in the country. "We won't allow any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can't have a technology that ends up taking people's jobs," said Gadkari.


Minimum 'human quotas' needed to protect jobs from robots

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Greater protections are needed to stop robots stealing your job, according to a renowned organisation of international lawyers. Legal experts are concerned that the pace of developments in artificial intelligence are outstripping the ability of global governments to make laws to deal with the consequences. And they are worried that this is leading to is gap between current legislation and new laws - including'human job quotas' - that they feel are necessary to protect people from being replaced by machines. The International Bar Association has issued a report detailing the threats posed to people's jobs by artificial intelligence. The International Bar Association has warned that up to a third of graduate jobs around the world could be made obsolete by artificial intelligence.



How Do We Protect Jobs In An Uberization World?

Huffington Post - Tech news and opinion

From Uber's perspective, their company only exists on the back of a large volunteer workforce that use their ride-hailing company app and platform to carry out piece work. The Uber company growth and performance relies on this workforce to deliver the service. Uber wants to treat this non-unionized group as a contractor arrangement which gives them the maximum flexibility and minimum employee commitments. The challenge is that a virtual business needs physical workers, at least until self-driving cars come along, and that's another whole story. But as lessons of Uber pulling out of China and with the continued competition against Lyft in the US, their business model is predicated on an available workforce to operate locally.