{"id":19597,"date":"2017-09-28T02:40:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T02:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=304862"},"modified":"2017-09-28T16:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:00:59","slug":"why-futurist-ray-kurzweil-isnt-worried-about-technology-stealing-your-job-fortune-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2017\/09\/28\/why-futurist-ray-kurzweil-isnt-worried-about-technology-stealing-your-job-fortune-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why futurist Ray Kurzweil isn&rsquo;t worried about technology stealing your job &mdash; Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_304869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 375px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-304869\" title=\"Ray Kurzweil and Stevie Wonder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/Ray-Kurzweil-and-Stevie-Wonder.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"262\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">1985: Ray Kurzweil looks on as Stevie Wonder experiences the Kurzweil 250, the first synthesizer to accurately reproduce the sounds of the piano &#8212; replacing piano-maker jobs but adding many more jobs for musicians (credit: Kurzweil Music Systems)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week, <em>Fortune<\/em> magazine asked Ray Kurzweil to comment on some often-expressed questions about the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does AI pose an existential threat to humanity? <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kurzweil sees the future as nuanced, notes writer <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/author\/michal-lev-ram\/\" data-reactid=\"196\">Michal Lev-Ram<\/a>. \u201cA lot of people think things are getting worse, partly because that\u2019s actually an evolutionary adaptation,\u201d Kurzweil said. \u201cIt\u2019s very important for your survival to be sensitive to bad news. \u2026 I think if you look at history, though, we\u2019re being helped [by new technology] more than we\u2019re being hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>How will artificial intelligence and other technologies impact jobs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already eliminated all jobs several times in human history,\u201d said Kurzweil, pointing out that \u201cfor every job we eliminate, we\u2019re going to create more jobs at the top of the skill ladder. &#8230; You can\u2019t describe the new jobs, because they\u2019re in industries and concepts that don\u2019t exist yet<strong>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are we so bad at predicting certain things? For example, Donald Trump winning the presidency?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kurzweil: &#8220;He\u2019s not technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Read <\/em>Fortune<em> article <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/09\/24\/futurist-ray-kurzweil-job-automation-loss\/\" >here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Fortune magazine asked Ray Kurzweil to comment on some often-expressed questions about the future. Does AI pose an existential threat to humanity? Kurzweil sees the future as nuanced, notes writer Michal Lev-Ram. &ldquo;A lot of people think things are getting worse, partly because that&rsquo;s actually an evolutionary adaptation,&rdquo; Kurzweil said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s very important [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airobotics","category-news","category-singularityfutures","category-survivaldefense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19613,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597\/revisions\/19613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}