
"Things are changing so fast," says Erik Brynjolfsson, a leading, technology-focused economist based at Stanford University.īack in 2017, Brynjolfsson published a paper in one of the top academic journals, Science, which outlined the kind of work that he believed AI was capable of doing. It's an era that is posing big, existential questions for us all, about everything from literally the future of human existence to - more to the focus of Planet Money - the future of human work. Companies like OpenAI and Google have unveiled new Artificial Intelligence systems with incredible capabilities, making what once seemed like science fiction an everyday reality.

Lately, it's felt like technological change has entered warp speed.
