Stories from 2045: Artificial intelligence and the future of work - a collection of short stories by the Economic Singularity Club

by Calum Chace, Adam Singer, Radhika Chadwick

These stories explore the ways that artificial intelligence and related technologies will affect the job market. At the moment, no-one can predict exactly what will happen, but it seems very likely that people will need to retrain and change jobs more often. Looking further ahead, we may need to work out how to make technological unemployment a very positive outcome, and with that in mind, this book has twice as many positive stories as negative ones. // All proceeds from this book will go to the Economic Singularity Foundation, a charity established to promote constructive analysis and discussion of the future of work. We hope you will enjoy the stories, but most of all, we hope you will join the debate. // The contributors are (in alphabetic order): // Julia Begbie, Jana Bennett, Irakli Beridze, Margaret Boden, Calum Chace, Alex Chace, Mark Chadwick, Radhika Chadwick, Ed Charvet, Kenn Cukier, Ray Eitel-Porter, Will Gilpin, Ira Goldberg, Will Haynes, Scott Heekin-Cannedy, Daniel Hulme, Arohi Jain, Yolanda Lannquist, Lawrence Lee, Mark Mardell, Odhran J McCarthy, Tim Pike, Ian Poree, Mike Potter, Charles Radclyffe, Shamus Rae, Ethan Shaotran, Adam Singer, John Thornhill, Simon Thorpe, Matthew Wolfman, Roman Yampolskiy

310 pages, Paperback

Published January 14, 2019

About the author

Calum studied philosophy at Oxford University, where he discovered that the science fiction he had been reading since early boyhood is actually philosophy in fancy dress.

He published "Surviving AI", a non-fiction review of the promise and peril of artificial intelligence in September 2015. Previously, he published "Pandora's Brain", a novel about the first conscious machine.

He is a regular speaker on artificial intelligence and related technologies, and runs a blog on the subject at www.pandoras-brain.com.

He is also the co-author of The Internet Startup Bible, a business best-seller published by Random House in 2000.

Prior to writing Pandora's Brain, Calum had a 30-year career in business, in which he was a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO.

He lives in the UK and Spain with his partner, a director of a design school, and their son.