On March 17, 2026, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University hosted a conference titled “Productivity Gains and Labour Pains: What Will AI Do to Jobs?” The discussion was led by Condoleezza Rice, a former US Secretary of State, and Rishi Sunak, Britain’s former Conservative Prime Minister. They, along with James Manyika, who oversees Google’s AI ...

What’s needed presently is the means and methods for navigating the transition from a working world where humans have done the heavy lifting, to one where human creations take over much of this labour.

Does this mean mass unemployment? Does this require governments to develop new tools and projects to absorb the restless human masses? If governments don’t intercede, wi...

Two years ago, I wrote a posting that included an Elon Musk prediction for humanoid robots. Musk said a billion humanoid robot units would be deployed by the 2040s, and 100 billion by 2060. Musk is ever the optimist about advanci...

What will happen when artificial intelligence (AI) ghost workers learn how to do our jobs? James Myers is the publisher of The Quantum Record, an online journal about the future that focuses on philosophy, science, technology and time. His March 1, 2026, article

When I read recently about the Norwegian Defence University College beginning to offer a Master’s degree in “warfare” and mili...