AI & The Future of Work: Life in a Hyper-Connected World

AI has finally arrived into the mainstream. Its algorithms feed on exponentially growing data creation, which increasingly includes machine-made data emitted from billions of sensors that are all around us. A human’s ability to compute these is dwarfed by these new “machines.” So what can we do to keep up? How do we fit in? And how can we ensure we are shaping a world worth living in?

• The explosion of AI capability recently picked up in the mainstream has been building for years and is only going to accelerate further. Exponential growth is invisible – until it’s not.
• The AI models we have recently become familiar with are powerful, but only in limited domains. So are we safe? Or do we need to fear for our role in the world?
• What are the things that are specifically human, that are impossible for AI to “learn”? Where is human activity likely going to maintain an insurmountable lead in terms of “value-add”?