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Gen Z's 'production nihilism': why young workers are tuning out the traditional grind
A new idea explains why young people are growing indifferent to conventional work, not just conventional saving.
Meta Is Quietly Testing Robots Inside Its Data Centers, and Workers Are Worried
Robotic arms, cable-swappers, and button-pressing sticks are already running trials at Meta's biggest data center campus. The humans who work there are paying close attention.
Young Workers Are Ditching Screens for Sawdust and Copper Wire
As AI quietly eats away at entry-level office jobs, a growing number of younger workers are trading spreadsheets for bookbinding, metalwork and boatbuilding.
Bill Gates Wants Some Jobs Kept Off-Limits to AI
In a 6,000-word essay, the Microsoft co-founder argues that certain roles should be protected from automation the same way nature reserves protect land, and warns governments are not ready for what is coming.
AI Is Reshaping Engineering Jobs. Here Is What Actually Keeps You Employable
Experts say the secret is not learning the right coding language. It is learning how to keep learning, whatever comes next.
Who keeps the robots running? The hidden workforce behind physical AI
Scaling robots past a handful of machines turns out to be an HR problem as much as an engineering one. Here is what that means for workers and the companies deploying them.
AI Was Going to Kill Millions of Jobs. A Year Later, the Numbers Tell a Different Story.
Tech leaders predicted mass white-collar unemployment by now. Economists say change is real but slower than the headlines suggested.
South Australia is launching a royal commission into AI, and it wants the tech giants in the room
Premier Peter Malinauskas is spending $3 million to figure out how artificial intelligence should be regulated before the technology outpaces the rules meant to govern it.
Midnight Job Interviews Are Real, and AI Is Why They Exist
Millions of job seekers are now completing AI-run video interviews at 1 am. It solves a real scheduling problem. It also raises questions nobody is ready to answer.
AI Is Already Replacing Workers in China. Here Is What That Looks Like on the Ground
From driverless taxis breaking down in Wuhan to factory floors going quiet, Chinese workers are living through something the rest of the world is still debating.
Google studied 15 million real AI interactions and found workers aren't automating themselves out of a job
A new Google Research paper looked at how people actually use Gemini at work. The headline finding: AI helps with pieces of tasks, but end-to-end job replacement is rare.
Why AI Makes Individual Workers Faster But Leaves Whole Companies Behind
A researcher who studies how teams work says most organisations are fixing the wrong problem. Getting each person to use AI better does almost nothing if the team itself still works the old way.
Will AI take my job? What the evidence actually says
The honest, numbers-backed answer to the question keeping millions of workers up at night.
AI is cutting jobs. Here are the human skills that still matter
A public sector worker facing his second restructure in two years puts a face on a fear millions share. Experts say three skills can keep you ahead.
Which jobs are hardest for AI to replace, and how do you land one?
From classrooms to courtrooms, some careers look a lot safer than others. Here is what workers and experts told The Guardian about building a future the algorithms cannot easily automate.