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Mar 28, 2017

Redefining Work, Income in the AI Economy

Economist Jeffrey Sachs says the market for physical labor is evaporating. Is the idea of work becoming obsolete?

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Mar 24, 2017

Q&A with Michael Schrage

Thinking Beyond Software Agents to ‘Multiple Selves’

Just as the world is falling in love with Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and other software agent/digital assistants that ease life’s pesky daily chores, author, IDE fellow, and…

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Mar 15, 2017

Working for a Better Future

By harnessing digital technologies and channeling entrepreneurial energy from around the world, we can shape our economic destiny.

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Mar 10, 2017

Experts Ponder the Economic Costs of AI

IDE conference speakers consider the impact on jobs as AI and machine learning move ahead

By Paula Klein

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Mar 6, 2017

When the Machines Take Our Jobs, Will We Be Freed?

Q&A with Erik Brynjolfsson about automation and leisure

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Mar 9, 2017

Toyota Drives AI Into the Home

By Timothy Aeppel

When big carmakers talk about using artificial intelligence and advanced robotics to enhance “mobility,” they usually just mean self-driving cars.

Not Toyota.

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Mar 31, 2017

Introducing the 2017 Inclusive Innovation Challenge

The MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge awards $1 million to organizations that are solving a grand challenge of our time — to reinvent the future of work.

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