num_pages: 288
description: An invigorating thought-provoking and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future.Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. Its not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated knowledge workerswriters paralegals assistants medical techniciansare threatened by accelerating advances in artificial intelligence. The industrial revolution shifted workers from farms to factories. In the first era of automation machines relieved humans of manually exhausting work. Today Era Two of automation continues to wash across the entire services-based economy that has replaced jobs in agriculture and manufacturing. Era Three and the rise of AI is dawning. Smart computers are demonstrating they are capable of making better decisions than humans. Brilliant technologies can now decide learn predict and even comprehend much faster and more accurately than the human brain and their progress is accelerating. Where will this leave lawyers nurses teachers and editors?In Only Humans Need Apply Thomas Hayes Davenport and Julia Kirby reframe the conversation about automation arguing that the future of increased productivity and business success isnt either human or machine. Its both. The key is augmentation utilizing technology to help humans work better smarter and faster. Instead of viewing these machines as competitive interlopers we can see them as partners and collaborators in creative problem solving as we move into the next era. The choice is ours.
language: English
title: Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines
publisher: Harper Business