Skeptical of Artificial Intelligence? You Can Blame the Media This Time

Can we talk about this first? Artificial intelligence is going to change the world profoundly, although exactly how is still unclear. The CEO of one AI company recently declared that "working for a living will become obsolete" as smart robots begin providing everything we need from self-driving cars to health care. That's a little hard to believe. But business leaders think AI could soon reduce the human workforce by as much as 99 percent in certain sectors.