Human traits like irritability and laziness may help keep robots from taking our jobs. You’ve heard the horror stories. Humans, as a future workforce, are facing extinction. The robots are coming! No job is safe! The prospect of this kind of impending robot revolution can seem daunting. Fifty years from now, machine learning and artificial intelligence will interact with our lives in increasingly astounding ways. But will human connection actually strengthen during the period of growing automation? And what will that mean for the greatest force the world has ever known — human achievement? |