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Digital Planet: Artificial Intelligence’s Threat to Jobs

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Prototype robot which can take items off shelves and put them into boxes, in place of employees.

06/12/2016 GMT

Artificial Intelligence’s Threat to Jobs

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Artificial Intelligence’s Threat to Jobs

Should we fear job losses to robots; 100 Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon project; Sigurlina  Ingvarsdottir – pioneering video game producer; Swachh Bharat toilet locator

Digital Catapult hosts a conference which looks at the wide-ranging, social and economic impact that machine learning and artificial intelligence is likely to have on traditionally conservative human-to-human industries. Click is joined by Jeremy Silver.

100 Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon project
The BBC 100 Women 2016 project includes the question: is the internet sexist? On 8th December, 100 Women is joining up with Wikipedia to hold a 12 hour edit-a-thon, to intervene in that story of the place of women online. Click talks to the BBC’s Fiona Crack.

Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir 
Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir  is one of the key producers of the Star Wars battlefront game. Click talks to her about her focus on diversity in video games – not just in the people who make the games but in the content. She also discusses her commitment to the Future Is Ours campaign.  

Swachh Bharat Toilet Locator
A team in India has developed a toilet app for people to locate the nearest toilet in northern Punjab. The app is called Swachh Bharat, meaning ‘clean India’ in Hindi, and Click talks to one of the designers Vipul Ujwal.

(Photo: Prototype robot with two arms, which can move to a location, take items off shelves and put them into boxes automatically, in place of employees. For Hitachi, Japan. © Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)

Producer: Colin Grant

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