Artificial Intelligence Will Catalyze a Remote Work Revolution

Parker Merritt
The Startup
Published in
5 min readFeb 15, 2020

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More and more Americans are working from home— unfortunately, this presents a number of social and technical challenges. The missing ingredient? Artificial Intelligence. From aggregating content to increasing empathy, AI has the potential to unleash a remote work revolution.

The future of work is remote— at this point, this assertion could easily double as the proverbial war cry of tech’s most prolific armchair experts. Undoubtedly, there’s ample evidence to support their claims. Over the past decade, growth in remote work careers has ballooned to the tune of 91 percent, with nearly 5 million Americans engaging in business from the comfort of their couches.

Even still, there are numerous barriers preventing this lifestyle from becoming the norm, with geographically-dispersed workforces facing seemingly insurmountable challenges of fragmentation, isolation, and miscommunication. But fear not, office dwellers— artificial intelligence, the most buzzworthy technology trend of modern computing, offers a number of capabilities that may soon serve as the most critical infrastructure in the remote work revolution.

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