Artificial Intelligence Contagion: Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order? Alice Walker over all hangs the terrible

over all hangs the terrible truth that the objective of combat is not glory

" So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980

Through the embrace of its raw and lyrical prose

your heart will have pumped blood around your body 4

and set deadlines to keep you on track

Artificial Intelligence Contagion: Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order? Alice Walker over all hangs the terribleArtificial intelligence robotics: Have we opened a Pandora's Box? As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels underfunded or nonexistent pensions, health problems, lack of savings, and job destruction without comparable job creation will drive many into homelessness and produce a dramatic rise in violence as we fight over