Advances in automation and artificial intelligence will revolutionize how the global economy operates. Enter your email address below to receive this article directly to your inbox. We will never sell or share your information. Your email address is stored on an encrypted and secure server. Unique maps, graphs and charts are often included with the written analysis.

Google's AlphaGo program recently defeated the world's second-ranked player of Go -- a vastly more complex game than chess -- marking an important milestone in the development of artificial intelligence (AI). But equally important was Google's revelation that one of its robots has developed the ability to pick up objects in ways that had previously only been identified in cognitive life forms. Both advances were brought about by the development of computational models based on the human central nervous system, which is particularly well suited to certain aspects of AI, such as pattern recognition and machine and adaptive learning. Research in this area will have significant implications for geopolitics in the future. Automation and AI are already being applied in nearly every economic sector.