Artificial intelligence (AI) could take over more than eight in 10 repetitive jobs performed by civil servants, a study has found. From processing passports to registering to vote, at least 120 million tasks across government have the potential to be automated. Every minute AI helped cut per transaction would save hundreds of thousands of hours of manual work by human staff. The Alan Turing Institute, which carried out the research, said it would free up officials from never-ending bureaucracy and spend more time dealing with the public. Last month, the Deputy Prime Minister promised AI would end'timewasting, pencil-pushing, computer-saysno' frustrations of dealing with public services.

Lawmakers are ignoring simple economics in favor of lunatic policies. If it continues, a voter revolution is guaranteed. The government shutdown continues as the debate over a border wall enters its fourth contentious week. Neither side in this has shown any sign of willingness to compromise. This remains a stalemate as of now, the very definition of it, or at least that's what it seems like from the outside.

Is AI going to steal our jobs? It seems to be a question on everybody's mind. Should we stop working on AI for the sake of saving humanity?! Over the past several years we've seen explosive growth in AI tech. All of the big guys: the Googles, the Amazons and the Facebooks, have been pouring money into Artificial Intelligence (AI) research.

Mark Carney knows how to illustrate economic trends through the use of creative language. And when he talks, people tend to listen. "The massacre of the Dilberts" was how the governor of the Bank of England encapsulated the fear that middle-management jobs would be wiped out by automation – for people unfamiliar with American cartoon strips, Dilbert is a white collar office worker and the strip mocks the absurdities of office life. In his native Canada this week, Carney made a number of points in a speech on automation. Most obviously, many office jobs done by people would be done by computers, a process that was already well advanced. "When I look back 30 years ago, what I used to do in the City of London when I worked at an investment bank, probably about three-quarters of what I did is now done by machine," he said.

Not long after the pizzeria Zume opened for business last year, its kitchen staff noticed a problem with some of its pizzas: they had holes in them. It wasn't the fault of the workers, who rolled out intact dough bases. It wasn't even the recipe -- a Zume pizza base can handle its fair share of toppings. Josh Goldberg, 38, is the chief technology officer of the Mountain View, Calif., pizza joint. Although most pizzerias don't have an engineering staff, let alone a CTO, Zume prides itself on its use of automation to make operations more efficient. It estimates its kitchen can make 10 times more pizzas than a pizzeria with a comparable staff.