Writers, designers, actors, coders, musicians, thinkers — they're all worried about being replaced by machines. But what if the A.I.s are actually here to help?

Freakonomics Radio

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You're paying more than minimum wage, but you're not paying anything close to the actual value of that data for the company because now that data is getting used to train this army of robots that's going to stick around forever. The companies want to get the data of how to do that job. And once they've gotten that, they don't need you anymore.

The New York Times

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From an evolutionary perspective, the task of childhood is to become independent of parents. So children are born with very strong drives to play, to explore, away from adults. That away from adults is a big part of it because they need to get away from adults in order to practice the skills required for becoming an adult.

Peter Gray — TED Radio Hour

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