Futurists and economists predicted that by now, we'd grind less, innovate more, and have time to enjoy more of our lives. So, what happened?

Opinions polls show that a lot of people want AI development to slow down and governments to step in. And they have really good reasons for their caution.

Science fiction imagines humans subservient to rows of servers humming in a data centers after losing a world war. In reality, the machines didn't have to fire a single shot…

As the virus pushes our finely fined, just-in-time supply chains to the breaking point with frustrating ease, it's worth asking if we should rethink how we make and service things.

Sometimes, jobs we're told are automated really aren't. They simply hide the humans making your request possible. And that's going to backfire when machines really do take over.

Futurists once dreamed of an automated, leisurely utopia. Our failure to live up to their visions is taking a massive toll on our health and politics.

Few topics today are as relevant and impactful as automation, changing the fortunes of developing nations and deeply reshaping the economies of politics of wealthy ones.

Universal basic income is pitched as the best possible solution to tens of millions of jobs being taken over by code and machines. But it's another populist bumper sticker solution to a complicated problem.

Robots are starting to keep tabs on and fire warehouse workers. And the day they'll be tracking all of us to evaluate our performance and make HR decisions is unsettlingly close.

If you're in a creative, artistic industry, relying on your looks and presence to make a living, computers couldn't possibly come for your job, right? Actually, they can, and here's how.

Automation is responsible for most jobs lost in the industrial world and could replace as much as two thirds of the developing world's workforce. Why are we still pretending it's decades away?

Pundits are charging that not only are tech billionaires taking advantage of their employees and automating them out of a job, they're actually on a mission to make humans obsolete.

While rapidly accelerating automation should make it easier to modernize nations still mired in poverty, in the real world, it's upending the economic models on which development experts rely...

What do sex workers, psychologists, and engineers think about futurists' and pundits' ideas of sci-fi style robot brothels to help angry celibate men?

Some Canadians are trying to save cashier jobs. But their phones and cheap, proven technology is poised to eliminate having to check out altogether.