AI can liberate humans to lead happier lives, if we get it right

We must think now about the consequences that AI will have very shortly in our lives – changing work, society, economics and more. There's some encouragement that at last governments around the world are waking up to the size of some of the societal questions that AI innovation will ask of us. There is nothing to say that our economic system requires a constant amount of human labour; we should treat the reduction in need for labour as a huge positive, rather than seeking to generate jobs simply to keep people occupied. Shorter working weeks would give more people a stake in employment, and also give them more time to do other things with their lives.