Feb. 11 - According to a Feb. 7 report in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. tech industry's unemployment rate climbed to 5.7% in January from 3.9% in December, considerably higher than last month's overall unemployment rate of 4%, showing that the popularity of automation and AI is having an increasingly negative impact on the tech industry's labor market. According to a report released by consulting firm Janco Associates, based on data from the U.S. Department of Labor, the number of unemployed people in the tech sector increased in January from 98,000 last December to 15...

About half of California voters are worried that artificial intelligence will put them out of work, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll. When asked if they were worried about losing their jobs in the next five years due to AI replacements, 22% of respondents said they were "very worried" and 29% said they were "somewhat worried." The survey results also showed that 26% answered "not too worried" and 24% answered "not at all worried." In response, one tech expert, Ahmed Banafa, a professor at San Jose State University, said, "It's...