Opinion Artificial intelligence could improve how we age

John Markoff covered technology for The New York Times for 28 years. He is currently a Berggruen Institute fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. "You don't get it," he said. "In China, they'll be lucky if the robots come just in time." For the previous decade, I had been reporting on the rapid expansion of new AI technologies into the workplace and how they were about to displace not only blue-collar manufacturing jobs but, for the first time, white-collar knowledge workers like lawyers and doctors. But that night, Kahneman alerted me to a largely unexamined aspect of the AI-fueled automation debate.