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Make Friends With Robots Or They Will Destroy You

“You’ll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots.”
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Uber’s fight to operate in London starkly shows how artificial intelligence (AI) can quickly eviscerate the value of hard-earned human knowledge. The city’s move to boot Uber is not much different from Donald Trump rejiggering environmental rules to help American coal miners keep their jobs. We are now asking a hard question of society: Do we want government to protect us from having our employment outlooks narrowed to working as overeducated TaskRabbit serfs putting together other people’s Ikea tables?

Uber is in court an order that would kick it out of London, where city officials ruled that Uber drivers are not

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