Humans need not apply : a guide to wealth and work in the age of artificial intelligence /
Jerry Kaplan.
- [New Haven] : Yale University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Welcome to the Future -- 1. Teaching Computers to Fish -- 2. Teaching Robots to Heel -- 3. Robotic Pickpockets -- 4. The Gods Are Angry -- 5. Officer, Arrest That Robot -- 6. America, Land of the Free Shipping -- 7. America, Home of the Brave Pharaohs -- 8. Take This Job and Automate It -- 9. The Fix Is In -- Outroduction: Welcome to Your Children's Future.
Researchers are finally cracking the code on artificial intelligence. It has the potential to usher in a new age of affluence and leisure-- but as Kaplan warns, the transition may be protracted and brutal unless we address the two great scourges of the modern developed world: volatile labor markets and income inequality. He proposes innovative, free-market adjustments to our economic system and social policies to avoid an extended period of social turmoil.