I'll Be Back … For Your Job - AlphaSense

Over the last year, we have heard leading minds warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI). We've since seen a robot that can take a beating and get back up unfazed, and borne witness to a computer that can best a Go master at his extremely complex game. Find and replace "Google" with a nefarious "Skynet" clone and you have yourself the start of a film franchise. Before it inevitably takes over the world, what impact will AI and robotics actually have in day-to-day business -- and who might benefit? When Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 character drove his Chevrolet Nova through the police station window in response to the "unhelpful" duty officer, I suspect not many people thought he was after his job.