The Future of Work

We live at an extraordinary moment. Over the last few years, machines have taken on tasks that, until recently, we thought only human beings alone could ever do: making medical diagnoses and composing amusing jokes, drafting legal arguments and designing beautiful buildings, writing lines of code and even forming relationships. What’s more, the leaders of the largest artificial intelligence (AI) companies – OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind – now claim that, within a decade, we will build an AI that can outperform us at every economically useful task that we do. Understanding the consequences of these new technologies – for the future of work, business, and society – is one of the most important tasks of the moment.