Has Great Potential! Meet Your A.I. Realtor

The spectre of artificial intelligence is worrying lots of workers, but one office is welcoming it with open arms and an apple pie in the oven. "There are many people who, at 2 a.m., are on their phones, looking at what's on the market," Fredrik Eklund, of the real-estate agency the Eklund Gomes Team, said the other day. He sat in the reception area of his Flatiron office wearing a pale-pink blazer, jeans, and thick black-framed eyeglasses. "Now they can talk to Maya. Her shop is open 24/7, and she is always there."