Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
Kevin Roose
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
For the “Human Veneer” quadrant, much of the computational or physical work can already be done by machines, but the key social interactive element makes them difficult to automate en masse. The name of the quadrant derives from the most likely route to automation: while the behind-the-scenes optimization work is overtaken by machines, human worker
... See moreIf A.I. is as powerful a tool as its proponents claim, they should be able to find other uses for it besides intensifying the ruthlessness of capital.
Generally, the future labor-market winners will be those with higher skills that machines cannot displace, or with the skills to work alongside the new intelligent machines, such as the tech skills to program the new machines. The losers will be the workers whose tasks are more easily replaced by robots and artificial intelligence. In the past fort
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