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op federal government officials believe there is no imminent threat that artificial intelligence and robots will displace large segments of the Canadian workforce, newly released documents show. In work done...

Canada frequently ranks as the most-educated country in the world, and yet we are pretty pessimistic about what the future of work holds — at least for us humans. In a 2018...

As we spoke to people, we learned that one of the details that really affected their experiences was how much opportunity they had to prepare, both for a single automation...

More employers are using applicant tracking systems to hire employees. Some colleges are using new AI-based tools, like VMock, to help students keep up....

In the last decade, the workforce has changed in ways many business professionals never could have imagined. The ubiquity of smart devices and internet connectivity means that more companies than...

AI could affect work in virtually every occupational group. However, whereas research on automation’s robotics and software continues to show that less-educated, lower-wage workers may be most exposed to displacement,...

AI will enable entrepreneurship supported by e-commerce, empower small teams, lower costs in the healthcare sector and more....

While an AI tool may not be designed to replace the tasks of women or men in particular, many occupations are so skewed in their current distribution that waves of...

As automation takes over routine tasks, what will happen to "on-ramp" jobs that allow workers to do something simple and useful in the middle of the action, get paid, build...

The trend toward automation is often discussed in terms of the financial and practical benefits of a division of labor: When are machines better equipped to tackle a task than...