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Title

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

Stephen Wolfram
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
URL: https://www.stephenwolfram.com
Book information

Publisher: Wolfram Media
Copyright year: 2026
ISBN: 978-1-57955-124-7
Medium: ebook
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Contents

The Shock of ChatGPT
Intuition from the Computational Universe
"AIs Will Never Be Able to Do That"
Will There Be Anything Left for the Humans to Do?
Generalized Economics and the Concept of Progress
How Can We Tell the AIs What to Do?
A World Run by AIs
Governance in an AI World
So Will It End Badly?
Preparing for an AI World
Afterword: Looking at Some Actual Data
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.
Subjects

*Arts and Humanities > Human Interest
*Science > Physics
*Social Science > Sociology and Psychology