TY - BOOK AU - Kaplan,Jerry TI - Humans need not apply: a guide to wealth and work in the age of artificial intelligence SN - 0300213557 AV - Q335 .K364 2015 U1 - 006.301/12 23 PY - 2015///] CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Economic aspects KW - Forecasting KW - Social aspects KW - Technological forecasting KW - Technological innovations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index; Welcome to the future -- Teaching computers to fish -- Teaching robots to heel -- Robotic pickpockets -- The gods are angry -- Officer, arrest that robot -- America, land of the free shipping -- America, home of the brave pharaohs -- Take this job and automate it -- The fix is in -- Outroduction : welcome to your children's future N2 - Researchers are finally cracking the code on artificial intelligence. It has the potential to usher in a new age of affluence and leisure-- but as Kaplan warns, the transition may be protracted and brutal unless we address the two great scourges of the modern developed world: volatile labor markets and income inequality. He proposes innovative, free-market adjustments to our economic system and social policies to avoid an extended period of social turmoil.-- ER -