AI Implications for the Future of Work

Abstract

Over the course of history, people have tried to find ways to improve their quality of life and to make their jobs easier, and that has required innovation and, more recently, technology.

In barely three decades, the appearance of the Internet, social networks, mobile phones, big data, cloud computing, cybersecurity, robotics or Artificial Intelligence (AI) have wrought enormous, far-reaching changes in the world of work. Their appearance has brought changes in production, in the economy and finances, in cities, trade, health care, agriculture, education and so on. All of that has altered the way we work, consume and communicate with each other, moving from highly personal relations to relations between people and machines. The technological change we are experiencing presages a disruptive transformation in the forms and understanding of work in the future.