Artificial intelligence is developing at breakneck speed, but what does this mean for the job market? Could robots be on course to render the skills of much of the world’s population obsolete. Are any of our jobs safe?

In a series of exclusive interviews with tech gurus, futurologists—including Martin Ford, the best-selling author of Rise of the Robots—and some of the world's most advanced roboticists to find out how the rise of the machine is already invisibly shaping all of our lives. We think of robots as primarily being in factories; but the reality is that lawyers, accountants and even artists are facing a future in which their livelihoods are threatened by artificial intelligence.

 

From self-driving Tesla cars to robo-journalists writing news by algorithm, artificially intelligent comedians, to state-of-the-art robots, we are facing a future where vast swathes of the population will indeed surrender their jobs to machines. But, is there also an opportunity to adapt to a radically changing future, to adopt the technology, and to harness the rise of the robots for our own good?