Martin Ford
@MFordFuture
Futurist & NY Times bestselling author of 4 books on #AI, including #RiseoftheRobots (https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Robots-Technology-Threat-Jobless/dp/0465097537) about how AI and robots will automate jobs.
My book on #AI and job losses, The Lights in the Tunnel, is now available as a free download. (The download link is in my reply to this post.) Recent advances in #AI, such as DeepSeek R1, make it clear that ever more powerful artificial intelligence is destined to become…
Sam Altman tells Federal Reserve conference that entire job categories will disappear due to #AI #RiseoftheRobots theguardian.com/technology/202…
Official results are in - Gemini achieved gold-medal level in the International Mathematical Olympiad! 🏆 An advanced version was able to solve 5 out of 6 problems. Incredible progress - huge congrats to @lmthang and the team! deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
China Is Spending Billions to Become an #AI Superpower nytimes.com/2025/07/16/tec…
Goldman Sachs is piloting its first autonomous coder in major #AI milestone for Wall Street #RiseoftheRobots cnbc.com/2025/07/11/gol…
🚨The big upward trend in Generative AI/LLM tool use in 2025 continues but may be slowing. An update to our paper "The Labor Market Effects of Generative AI" tracking LLM adoption w surveys (finding LLM use at work went from 30.1% [December 2024] to 45.6% [June 2025]). Thread🧵
New Gen AI paper🚨: "The Labor Market Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence" with Filip Jolevski (@FilipJole), Vitor Melo (@MeloVitor_), and Brendan Moore (@BrendanDMoore). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Which Workers Will #AI Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced? #RiseoftheRobots nytimes.com/2025/07/07/bus…
454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper #RiseoftheRobots nytimes.com/2025/07/02/hea…
CEOs are no longer dodging the question of whether #AI takes jobs. Now they are giving predictions of how deep those cuts could go. #RiseoftheRobots wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-whi…
China Is Quickly Eroding America’s Lead in the Global #AI Race wsj.com/tech/ai/artifi…
Amazon Is on the Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans in Its Warehouses #RiseoftheRobots wsj.com/tech/amazon-wa…
Microsoft Says Its New #AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors #RiseoftheRobots wired.com/story/microsof…
In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the #AI Race nytimes.com/2025/06/27/tec…
#AI threatens entry-level jobs in Australia as university grads struggle to get hired #RiseoftheRobots abc.net.au/news/2025-06-2…
Pope Leo takes on #AI #RiseoftheRobots wsj.com/tech/ai/pope-l… via @WSJ
This #AI Company Wants to Take Your Job #RiseoftheRobots nytimes.com/2025/06/11/tec…
Meta Is Creating a New #AI Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’ nytimes.com/2025/06/10/tec…
Waymo Driverless Taxis Become Protesters’ New Favorite Target Robot-operated electric vehicles were summoned to downtown Los Angeles and set alight #RiseoftheRobots wsj.com/us-news/waymo-… via @WSJ
scientificamerican.com/article/inside… "The bot spent the first two minutes finding and mastering the related literature in the field. Then it wrote on the screen that it wanted to try solving a simpler “toy” version of the question first in order to learn. A few minutes later, it wrote that it…
