Book cover of A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond by Daniel Susskind
Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it

From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. But as Daniel Susskind demonstrates, this time really is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk. […Learn More]

Business & Money

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

What does it mean to be smart? To be human? What do we really want from life and the intelligence we have, or might create? 
 
With deep and exclusive reporting, across hundreds of interviews, New York Times Silicon Valley journalist Cade Metz brings you into the rooms where these questions are being answered. Where an extraordinarily powerful new artificial intelligence has been built into our biggest companies, our social discourse, and our daily lives, with few of us even noticing.  […Learn More]