"You’d be absolutely mad not to read this book. It had me in hysterics, while making it super-clear what’s hype and what’s realistic about current and near-future AI," writes Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge (Jan. 22nd, 2020)
"The number of manufacturing jobs was little changed from 1970 to 2000. From 2000 to the end of 2007 (before the Great Recession) we lost 3.4 milllion manufacturing jobs as the trade deficit exploded. Fans of logic and arithmetic might think there is a connenction there," writes Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington D.C. (Oct. 23rd, 2019)
"It seems not a day goes by without the appearance of another dire warning about the future of work. Some alarmists fear a “robot apocalypse,” while others foresee the day of “singularity” coming when artificial intelligence exceeds human intelligence. Still others warn that income inequality will continue to rise as owners of capital capture more of the benefits of innovations than those who labor for a living," write Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management and Elisabeth Reynolds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Oct. 9th, 2019)