Silicon Valley is right--our jobs are already disappearing

Stephen Hawking says that "we are at the most dangerous moment in the development of humanity" and that the "rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative, or supervisory roles remaining." Sam Hinkie, the smartest man in sports and a Stanford grad, asks, "How are you preparing your kids for a life with 60% unemployment?" Sam Altman, the head of YCombinator, is so convinced that we're going to need to figure out new ways of providing people with a means to live that he's giving $20,000 each to 1,000 people in Oakland for a year just to see what they do with their new jobless income. Literally the smartest people in the world think an unprecedented wave of job destruction is coming with the development of artificial intelligence, robotics, software, and automation. My friends in Silicon Valley have read the Second Machine Age and Rise of the Robots and they see a wave coming.