Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It's Complicated...

Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It's Complicated...icon

by Stephen Wolfram

Publisher
Wolfram Media
Publication
Jul 28, 2025
Format
EBook
Illustrated
No
Price
3.99
ISBN
9781579551247
Age
Adult 18+
Category
Business & EconomicsCareerGeneral Nonfiction

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Description

What will people "do" when AIs can do almost everything? In this clear-eyed exploration of automation, AI and human purpose, Stephen Wolfram argues that we're not witnessing the end of work—but a shift in what we consider valuable human activity. Just as industrial machines redefined labor in the past, today's AIs are changing which tasks we delegate and which ones we reserve for ourselves. The future of human contribution lies not in competition with machines, but in defining goals, framing meaning and operating at a symbolic level that computation alone can't reach. Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It's Complicated... reexamines a familiar fear as a deeper question: not whether we'll be replaced, but how we'll evolve.

Author(s)

Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram is an award-winning scientist and bestselling author, and the creator of some of the world's most respected software systems—Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language. For more than 35 years, he has been CEO of the global technology company Wolfram Research, as well as responsible for a series of groundbreaking advances in basic science, including the recent Wolfram Physics Project.