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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford

Automation, work, and economic change

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  • Award recognition

    Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

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    A New York Times bestseller

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  • Critical praise

    Praised by the Los Angeles Times as “an indispensable contribution”

    The Los Angeles Times calls the book lucid, comprehensive, unafraid, and an indispensable contribution to a long...

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Automation, work, and economic change

Martin Ford examines how advances in artificial intelligence and robotics could reshape employment across both knowledge work and blue-collar occupations. This revised edition adds coverage of generative AI and considers the consequences of automation for the job market and the wider economy. It also questions whether familiar responses to technological disruption—particularly more education and training—will be enough, and frames adaptation as a challenge for individuals and society. The book connects changing work patterns to broader concerns about prosperity, inequality, and economic insecurity.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in how AI and robotics may affect jobs and the economy.
  • Readers exploring the social consequences of technological change.
  • Readers seeking discussion of education and training as responses to automation.

Themes

Artificial intelligence and roboticsAutomation and employmentEconomic inequality and insecurityEducation and adaptation

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Book overview

Updated for the unfolding AI disruption, this prescient classic shows how automation is changing the economy, undermining work, and reshaping our lives

A New York Times bestseller and winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

"Lucid, comprehensive and unafraid . . . an indispensable contribution to a long-running argument."―Los Angeles Times

As artificial intelligence continues to accelerate, what are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? Many highly educated knowledge workers, including attorneys, financial analysts, and even software developers, are poised to be replaced by AI, while robots will increasingly threaten blue-collar jobs.

This new edition of Rise of the Robots includes extensive new coverage of the latest advances in generative AI and robotics and explores what these technologies mean for the job market and economy of the future. How can individuals, and society as a whole, adapt to the changes that are coming? The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren't going to work. We must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity.

Prescient and clearly reasoned, this award-winning book is essential reading to understand what accelerating technology means for us and for our future.
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