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In COVID Automation Boom, Robots and Apps Find Work at Services Firms

Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line cooks. “It …

Women More Likely Than Men to Lose U.S. Jobs by Automation: WEF Report

Women are more likely than men to be knocked out of their U.S. jobs by automation in the next eight years, and they’ll find half as many opportunities to land new positions unless there’s a new effort to retrain them. …