Artificial intelligence is here: who is it going to benefit?

Jerry Kaplan: will discuss his his book, Humans Need Not Apply, at the Bay Area Book Festival on Sat. This article is brought to you by the Bay Area Book Festival. Fifty years ago, we could not have imagined phones that communicated without wires. Ten years ago, driverless cars were something out of a science-fiction novel -- not on assembly lines. Artificial intelligence has already arrived -- hello, Siri and GPS -- but has only just begun the trajectory that promises to change our personal and work lives radically.