These self-motivating, self-contained agents, formed as corporations, will be able to carry out set objectives autonomously, without any direct human supervision.” - Dorian Pyle and Cristina San Jose in an article in McKinsey Quarterly “Three to five years out we expect to see far higher levels of artificial intelligence, as well as the development of distributed autonomous corporations. These self-motivating, self-contained agents, formed as corporations, will be able to carry out set objectives autonomously, without any direct human supervision.” Corporations with no human supervision? To learn more about them, search online to read the latest details about decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) or distributed autonomous corporations (DACs). When you assess the advances in algorithm-assisted work and the rapid advance of the robot takeover of driving, accounting and many other occupations you can clearly see that unless something changes we are in precarious times for human employment and the world’s economies.Ī robot is generally defined as “a tool capable of carrying out a series of actions automatically.” There is no doubt that we are now in the midst of a “robot takeover” by mostly invisible autonomous algorithms in the machine-to-machine world and in our own algorithm-based work partnerships with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Salesforce, financial systems, you name it, the entire Web, really, and every magical digital tool we use.Įvolution in machine learning has come so far so fast that global business consultancy McKinsey predicts: “Three to five years out we expect to see far higher levels of artificial intelligence, as well as the development of distributed autonomous corporations. As anthropologist Amber Case pointed out a few years ago in a popular TED talk, we are all cyborgs now. Most people around the world today who have good Internet connectivity are already accomplishing up to 80 percent or more of their daily work with the help of algorithms - programmed assistance - on a networked computer. Kevin Kelly of Wired and many of the world’s top scientists are saying artificial intelligence breakthroughs are now enabling the robot takeover he wrote about in 2013. I share this expanded version of my World Future talk, with its plea for a much-accelerated examination of the overwhelming impacts of the advance of algorithms to be undertaken as formally as possible right now. Digital engineers and digital storytellers and the entrepreneurs who stand behind them are the primary movers continually shaping the possibilities for who we can be now and who we might become, imagining, inspiring and building the global future. It was an honor to get the chance to speak abou t “AI, Robotics and the Future of Work” in California, home to the most amazing innovations being made to advance our best and brightest future. The event featured marvelous speakers like Steve Jurvetson, one of the world’s top venture capitalists, John Hagel of Deloitte, Brian David Johnson of Intel and top futurist Paul Saffo. I recently enjoyed the opportunity to give the final plenary talk at the World Future Society’s annual conference in San Francisco. Advancing the rights of the individual in this vast, complex network is difficult and crucial. We are dependent upon and merging with our machines. In the next few years humans in most positions in the world of work will be nearly 100 percent replaced by or partnered with smart software and robots -’black box’ invisible algorithm-driven tools. They must merely extend as they have been, rapidly becoming more invisible, autonomous and crucially instrumental in our essential systems. The machines that replace us do not have to have superintelligence to execute a takeover with overwhelming impacts.
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