Robots Will Steal Your Job

Many argue that as new technologies eliminate jobs, they create new jobs. This chapter analyzes why that is an unlikely outcome with automation this widespread.

Technologies that are quite useful and safe do not always achieve widespread social acceptance. In this chapter we explore why that is.

The signs of automation taking over our economy are already showing themselves in our world.

Artificial intelligence is already stealing many of our jobs, but not the ones you might think of.

What does it mean to compare machine intelligence to human intelligence, and does it even matter when it comes to the workplace?

Now that we understand the nature of exponential growth, we can look at how it applies to the advancement of information technology.

Most people do not fully grasp the implications of exponential growth. Federico presents us with some examples to help illustrate it.

The idea that machines steal jobs is not a new one. The Luddite movement goes back to 19th century England; is there weight to their argument, or is it all just a fallacy?

Federico takes us through unemployment trends leading up to 2012.

You are about to become obsolete. You think you are special, unique, and that whatever it is that you are doing is impossible to replace. You are wrong. As we speak, millions of algorithms created by computer scientists are frantically running on servers all over the world, with one sole purpose: do whatever humans can do, but better.