Martin Ford

I'm pleased to announce that a new 2026 edition of my New York Times bestselling book, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, will be available on June 2. I have extensively updated the book to cover the latest advances in generative #AI and robotics and to examine the future economic and job market implications of the unfolding AI disruption. The book focuses on what we can do as individuals, and as a society, to successfully navigate the looming transition into the age of AI. You can pre-order from the link in the reply. @BasicBooks #RiseoftheRobots

I'm pleased to announce that a new 2026 edition of my New York Times bestselling book, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, will be available on June 2. I have extensively updated the book to cover the latest advances in generative #AI and robotics and to examine the future economic and job market implications of the unfolding AI disruption. The book focuses on what we can do as individuals, and as a society, to successfully navigate the looming transition into the age of AI. You can pre-order from the link in the reply. @BasicBooks #RiseoftheRobots

The hype around self-driving cars feels real this time. #RiseoftheRobots @timhiggins wsj.com/tech/this-time… via @WSJ

Companies cutting jobs as investments shift toward #AI #RiseoftheRobots reuters.com/business/world… via @GoogleNews

Goldman Sachs warns #AI-fueled layoffs could raise the unemployment rate this year #RiseoftheRobots finance.yahoo.com/news/goldman-s…

Introducing The Anthropic Institute, a new effort to advance the public conversation about powerful AI. anthropic.com/news/the-anthr…

February jobs report: CEO warns #AI invisible layoff is locking out workers #RiseoftheRobots foxbusiness.com/economy/invisi…

Ten years ago, AlphaGo’s legendary match in Seoul heralded the start of the modern era in AI. Its famous ‘Move 37’ signaled to us that AI techniques were ready to tackle real-world problems in areas like science - and ideas inspired by these methods are critical to building AGI

Pre-order the new edition of Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future. Available June 2, 2026. #RiseoftheRobots #AI amazon.com/Rise-Robots-Te…

Voters are already anxious about the economic impact of AI, and the effects will surely grow in the coming months and years. @YasminKhorram and @cheyennehaslett explain what's happening, with some data from our Canaries in the Coal Mine paper.

Are we finally seeing AI in the productivity data? A big upward revision to earlier data and strong Q4 bring us 2.2% above CBO's pre-pandemic forecast. Annual rates: 1 year: 2.8% 2 years: 2.5% 6 years: 2.2%

.@alexolegimas has updated his summary of the evidence on AI and productivity. It's terrific!

A universal truth: most radar charts should just be bar charts. Love your stuff, Anthropic!

new labor market mnemonic: job's in the red, it's dead job's in the blue, join a construction crew

Block Cuts 40% of Its Work Force Because of Its Embrace of #AI #RiseoftheRobots nytimes.com/2026/02/26/tec…

The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored by @trippmickle. A very important article, although if fails to mention the the Taiwanese government views this situation as its "Silicon Shield." ( ie. if TSMC is too big to fail, US intervention is assured.) Therefore they will resist moving more than token production offshore. nytimes.com/2026/02/24/tec…

Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei: "We might be 6-12 months away from models doing all of what software engineers do end-to-end”.

Excited to launch Gemini 3.1 Pro! Major improvements across the board including in core reasoning and problem solving. For example scoring 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark - more than 2x the performance of 3 Pro. Rolling out today in @GeminiApp, @antigravity and more - enjoy!

Terence Tao: AI isn’t hype anymore in Math discovery. Terence Tao is one of the greatest living mathematicians, in his new lecture explains how AI and human professional mathematicians are now complementary. "There has been a really visible increase in capability. It is not pure hype by any means. To me, these advances show there is a complementary way to do mathematics. Humans traditionally work in small groups on hard problems for months, and we will keep doing that. But we can also now set AI to scale: sweep a thousand problems and pick up all the low-hanging fruit. Figure out all the ways to match problems to methods. If there are 20 different techniques, apply them all to 1,000 problems and see which ones can be solved by these methods. This is the capability that is present today." From 'Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM)' YT channel.