On AI and Jobs, We Are All Augmentarians Now

On AI and Jobs, We Are All Augmentarians Now

Walmart’s Katie Finnegan onstage at Emtech Next For a couple of days this week, I attended the EmTech NEXT conference at MIT, which is organized by MIT Technology Review. The focus of the event was that fabled idea “The Future of Work,” and if you are on the side of the humans, the future seems pretty bright. Virtually every speaker (MIT folks, AI and robotics leaders) came out in favor of augmentation over automation. They say that AI and robots won’t take our jobs, but rather augment them by doing the things we humans don’t do so well.

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