It was meant to be a bloodbath. When covid-19 struck in early 2020, economists warned that a wave of job-killing robots would sweep over the labour market, leading to high and structural unemployment. One prominent economist, in congressional testimony in the autumn, asserted that employers were ”substituting machines for workers”. A paper published by the imf in early 2021 said that such concerns “seem justified”. Surveys of firms suggested they had grand plans to invest in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Día: 27 de diciembre de 2022
Removing Russia from the Security Council: Part Two
When the USSR dissolved in 1991, nobody pursued the possibility at the time, but two UN Members besides Russia thus were also, in principle, claimants to the USSR Security Council seat. Both already were present at the UN in 1991, and both had been there for the entirety of the UN’s history. Both were USSR Union Republics, Russia’s constitutional equals in that system.