Category: Professional Insights
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Summary of ‘Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings’ by Paul Slovic et al. (2004)”
In this blogpost I will provide a summary and elucidate the scientific concepts described in the paper ‘’Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality’’ by Paul Slovic, Melissa L. Finucane, Ellen Peters and Donald G. MacGregor (2004).
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Will self-learning robots replace paid labour?
Introduction The fear of unemployment due to automation is nothing new. In the 19th century, protesters destroyed textile industry machines (Thompson, 1977). Today, we are regularly warned about unemployment due to automation (Casper, 2016; Dijkstra, 2019). In the 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson set up a commission to investigate the supposed danger of automation (Autor,…