FUTUREPROOF

A New York Times bestselling author and tech columnist s counter intuitive guide to staying relevant and employable in the machine age by becoming irreplaceably human It s not a future scenario any more We ve been taught that to compete with automation and AI we ll have to become more like the machines themselves building up technical skills like coding But there s simply no way to keep up What if all the advice is wrong And what do we need to do instead to become futureproof We tend to think of automation as a blue collar phenomenon that will affect truck drivers factory workers and other people with repetitive manual jobs But it s much much broader than that Lawyers are being automated out of existence Last year JPMorgan Chase built a piece of software called COIN which uses machine learning to review complicated contracts and documents It used to take the firm s lawyers more than 300 000 hours every year to review all of those documents Now it takes a few seconds and requires just one human to run the program Doctors are being automated out of existence too Last summer a Chinese tech company built a deep learning algorithm that diagnosed brain cancer and other diseases faster and more accurately than a team of 15 top Chinese docto