Futurist & NY Times bestselling author. New edition of #RiseoftheRobots (amazon.com/Rise-Robots-Techn…) about how
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The new edition of "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future" is now available!
I have extensively updated the book to cover the latest advances in generative #AI and robotics and to examine the future economic and job market implications of the unfolding AI disruption. The book focuses on what we can do as individuals, and as a society, to successfully navigate the looming transition into the age of AI. Order from the link in the reply!
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I'm a technology optimist. I’ve spent four decades studying disruptive innovation, from the microprocessor, the internet, mobile phones to OpenAI. I'm certain AI will do 80% of the economically valuable work humans do today, for 80% of all jobs, faster than most believe. The question isn't whether mass underemployment arrives, but whether we have a policy framework ready. Right now we don't.
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An Economic Policy Framework: a proposal for how the US government should manage labor market disruption from advanced AI. We’re contributing $200 million to a new fund to sponsor major evaluations of some of these ideas.
anthropic.com/policy-on-the-…
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So I gave Fable 5 the watchmaker benchmark: a full Swiss lever movement in Three.js. Real gear ratios (18,000 bph), working escapement, breathing hairspring — and the hands tell actual time. It verified its own work with vision, in a loop, until done. ⌚
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Fable has done AGI-level job on on the Boeing 747 benchmark... it's almost scary 👀
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Today, the Stanford @DigEconLab launches the AI Economic Indicators, a new platform for tracking how AI is reshaping work, productivity, adoption, and the economy.
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The white-collar recession AI could create politi.co/4eat3My via @politico
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It’s happening. There are about 2.9 million customer service workers in the US.
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JUST IN: Verizon CEO says the company’s new AI customer service agents scored "1,280 basis points" higher on customer satisfaction than humans.
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Anthropic says Claude now writes 80% of its code, raising new questions about whether AI labs can safely automate the work of building more powerful AI.
The company is also backing the idea that labs may need a way to coordinate on slowing or pausing development.
Read more in today's AI Agenda: thein.fo/4g7qbCs
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.@MFordFuture futurist & author of Rise of the Robots joins andrewyang.com/podcast to talk is AI already displacing workers, why $725 billion in AI infrastructure spending requires labor cuts, and why white-collar workers most at risk may not be prepared for what's coming.
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"On days where everything works well, I can't help but think nothing I do matters, everything is automated and better and faster than I ever will be," an Anthropic employee said in the company's blog post. bit.ly/4asT6xa
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TV interview with me about the new edition of ‘Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future’ and the impact of #AI on the job market.
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The new edition of "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future" is now available on Amazon and at bookstores!
This new edition covers the latest advances in #AI and robotics and to explores the future economic and job market implications of the unfolding AI disruption.
Amazon link in the reply.
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None of this guarantees recursive self-improvement is on the horizon. It’s not yet clear that Claude is capable of research judgment—of choosing the right problems to work on.
But if these trends continue, AI systems designing and building their own successors is plausible. This could revolutionize society—medicine, technology, the economy—for the better. But it may also compound alignment issues and ultimately lead to loss of control.
The Anthropic Institute (in collaboration with external stakeholders) will conduct research to think through the implications of increasingly powerful, potentially self-improving systems—and how to create the ability for the world to make deliberate choices about the future development of the technology.
Read the full post: anthropic.com/institute/recu…
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Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.
It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. anthropic.com/institute/recu…
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The new edition of "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future" is now available on Amazon and at bookstores.
The book has been updated to cover the latest advances in generative #AI and robotics and to examine the future economic and job market implications of the unfolding AI disruption. The book focuses on what we can do as individuals, and as a society, to successfully navigate the looming transition into the age of AI. Order from the link in the reply!
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Will AI create massive worldwide joblessness? Rise of the Robots author Martin Ford discusses AI, automation, robots, and the future of work. FULL INTERVIEW: youtu.be/W5T1akQR9WQ
#AI #tech #economy #jobs @MFordFuture
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Jun 2
The new edition of "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future" is now available!
I have extensively updated the book to cover the latest advances in generative #AI and robotics and to examine the future economic and job market implications of the unfolding AI disruption. The book focuses on what we can do as individuals, and as a society, to successfully navigate the looming transition into the age of AI. Order from the link in the reply!
@BasicBooks #RiseoftheRobots
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Order the new #RiseoftheRobots 2026 edition here:
Paperback: amazon.com/Rise-Robots-Techn…
Kindle: amazon.com/Rise-Robots-Techn…
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