Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. With the Hollywood blockbuster Transcendence playing in cinemas, with Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman showcasing clashing v... Read more
As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson — it’s simply the growing p... Read more
M.I.T. economist Erik Brynjolfsson explains how technology has affected economic growth and productivity, and how human workers can adapt Fifteen years ago Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in a... Read more
The robot equipment industry has one word for the alarmist articles and television news programs that predict a robot is about to steal your job: Fiddlesticks! Well, that wasn’t actually the... Read more
It’s time to reinvent the formula for how work is conducted, since we are still relying on a very 20th century notion of work The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as th... Read more
It’s time to get started, before the robots and the robber barons turn our society into something unrecognizable. The American economy is still, by most measures, deeply depressed. But corpo... Read more
“The key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.” It has become a campaign ritual. Immediately after the release of unemployment figures on the f... Read more
Many workers, in short, are losing the race against the machine A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, m... Read more