{"id":70397,"date":"2017-06-16T03:04:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T10:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/when-artificial-intelligence-is-bad-news-for-the-boss"},"modified":"2017-06-16T03:04:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T10:04:39","slug":"when-artificial-intelligence-is-bad-news-for-the-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/when-artificial-intelligence-is-bad-news-for-the-boss","title":{"rendered":"When artificial intelligence is bad news for the boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-artificial-intelligence-is-bad-news-for-the-boss.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two academic authors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who became the pin-up boys of the Davos crowd for their previous book on The Second Machine Age (2014), do a neat job of scanning the technological horizon and highlighting significant landmarks. This is a clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big data and the sharing economy. But McAfee and Brynjolfsson also wisely acknowledge the limitations of their futurology and avoid over-simplification. No one can really have much idea how the business world is going to evolve or predict the precise interplay between all these fast-changing forces.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new book by the authors of \u2018The Second Machine Age\u2019 suggests that digital disruption is coming to the corner office.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/14588e62-4f88-11e7-bfb8-997009366969?mhq5j=e1\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/14588e62&#45;4f88&#45;11e7-bfb8&#...9?mhq5j=e1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two academic authors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who became the pin-up boys of the Davos crowd for their previous book on The Second Machine Age (2014), do a neat job of scanning the technological horizon and highlighting significant landmarks. This is a clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big data and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}