Carrying on the hot topic of the moment, many people are saying that AI will be taking humans' jobs soon, or some indeed say that it has already started. So, what is the situation? British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessperson, Stephan Wolfram, says it is not so straightforward. Although AI has reached groundbreaking heights lately, which leads humans to ask these pertinent questions, and indeed Wolfram says in the future this will only increase, he says we must look to history for a rounded look at the argument. The role of humans has ever been evolving….'and

Few people know tech better than Kevin Kelly. He was the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and continues to serve as its senior maverick. Kelly's groundbreaking reporting has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Economist, Time, Science, GQ and The Wall Street Journal. He also has written many best-sellers on the intersection of technology and society, including his most recent book, "The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future." Kelly will give a keynote address at the Morningstar Investment Conference, upcoming in Chicago, June 11-13. We recently spoke with him to get the inside scoop on his address.

Few people know tech better than Kevin Kelly. He was the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and continues to serve as its senior maverick. Kelly's groundbreaking reporting has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Economist, Time, Science, GQ and The Wall Street Journal. He also has written many best-sellers on the intersection of technology and society, including his most recent book, "The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future." Kelly will give a keynote address at the Morningstar Investment Conference, upcoming in Chicago, June 11-13. We recently spoke with him to get the inside scoop on his address.

In tomorrow's workplace, many routine jobs now performed by workers will increasingly be assumed by machines, leaving more complicated tasks to humans who see the big picture and possess interpersonal skills, a Stanford scholar says. Visiting scholar James Timbie says that the artificial intelligence revolution will involve humans and machines working together, with the best results coming from humans supported by intelligent machines. Artificial intelligence and other advancing technologies promise advances in health, safety and productivity, but large-scale economic disruptions are inevitable, said James Timbie, an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He trained at Stanford as a physicist, served as a senior advisor at the State Department from 1983 to 2016 where he played a key role in arms control and disarmament, and now studies the impact of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. Timbie discussed what the future may hold for workers in a chapter in the new book, Beyond Disruption: Technology's Challenge to Governance, which he co-edited with Hoover's George P. Shultz and Jim Hoagland.

Ever since early-nineteenth-century textile workers destroyed the mechanical looms that threatened their livelihoods, debates over automation have conjured gloom-and-doom scenarios about the future of work. With another era of automation upon us, how nervous about the future of our own livelihoods should we be? A recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute estimates that depending on a country's level of development, advances in automation will require 3 to 14 per cent of workers worldwide to change occupations or upgrade their skills by the year 2030. Already, about 10 per cent of all jobs in Europe have disappeared since 1990 during the first wave of routine-based technological change. And with advances in artificial intelligence (AI), which affects a broader range of tasks, that share could double in the coming years.