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Fourth Industrial Revolution
This is how AI is putting stress on workers
The adoption of new information technologies, such as AI, is influencing not just employment and wages, but worker well-being.
Isamu Yamamoto is a professor at the Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University and a faculty fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). Previously, he was a director and senior economist (2005-2007) and deputy director and economist (2003-2005) at the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan.
The adoption of new information technologies, such as AI, is influencing not just employment and wages, but worker well-being.
The development and diffusion of new information technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) continue apace (Bughin and Hazan 2017), but how are these factors likely to change work ...