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95 Foreign Aff. 139 (2016)
Human Work in the Robotic Future: Policy for the Age of Automation

handle is hein.journals/fora95 and id is 819 raw text is: Human Work in the Robotic Future Policy for the Age of Automation Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson he promises of science fiction are quickly becoming workaday realities. Cars and trucks are starting to drive themselves in normal traffic. Machines have begun to understand our speech, figure out what we want, and satisfy our requests. They have learned to write clean prose, generate novel scientific hypotheses (that are supported by later research), compose evocative music, and beat us, quite literally, at our own games: chess, poker, and even go. This technological surge is just getting started, and there's much more to come. For one thing, the fundamental building blocks that launched it will continue to improve rapidly. The costs of processing, memory, bandwidth, sensors, and storage continue to fall exponentially. Cloud computing will make all these resources available on demand across the world. Digital data will become only more pervasive, letting us run experiments, test theories, and learn at an ever-greater scale. And the billions of humans around the world are growing increasingly connected; they're not only tapping into the world's knowledge (much of which is available for free) but also expanding and remixing it. This means that the global population of innovators, entrepreneurs, and geeks is growing quickly and, with it, the potential for breakthroughs. Most important, humanity has recently become much better at building machines that can figure things out on their own. By studying ANDREW MCAFEE is Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Manage- ment and Co-Founder of MIT's Initiative on the Digital Economy. ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON is Schussel Family Professor of Management Science at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Co-Founder of MIT's Initiative on the Digital Economy, and Chair of the MIT Sloan Management Review. They are the authors of The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. July/August 2016 139

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