Humanity’s Search for Meaning in the Age of AI and Automation

Remington Tonar
Sep 4, 2018 · 7 min read
Illustration by Roberto Parada

In 2013, Oxford University professors Carl Frey and Michael Osborne published a now-seminal study on the likelihood that various professions would be automated. In that study, medical doctors were identified as some of the least likely to be replaced by AI and automation. Fast forward to 2018, when an AI system called BioMind developed by research teams from the Artificial…

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Remington Tonar

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Managing Director at Cannon Solutions. Builder of next gen work spaces. Forbes[dot]com contributor. PhD cand. researching our faith in and fear of technology.

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