Automatic for the people.

The challenge posed to humanity by artificial intelligence (AI) will be much harder to solve than global warming. It is an excellent and timely piece of analysis by Daniel Susskind, who with his father Richard wrote the seminal The Future of the Professions (2015), which explored the impact of digital technologies on employment in the professions. Though the AI-informed technologies of the future will not take over all jobs, they will adopt more and more activities currently performed by humans, leaving the remaining roles only for the most highly skilled: "as we move through the 21st century, the demand for the work of human beings is likely to wither away, gradually", he writes. [Extracted from the article]