The Fuzzy Future of AI and Jobs - Techonomy

Are we headed towards a world where machines do everything? Will people be left on the sidelines, queuing for handouts and hungering for meaningful work? These are questions at the heart of Techonomy's mission and the conversations we're curating now. An amazing breakfast roundtable on AI at the recent Techonomy conference surfaced a typically astonishing diversity of ideas about where it's going. My own view remains cautiously optimistic that the net effect of automation will not fundamentally be to destroy jobs. But the future is complex.