I am not alone in worrying that artificial intelligence will one day take my job. A new study of 300,000 companies suggests that some junior roles are already losing out to the bots.
Our story,
though, explains why it is not yet time to panic.
If any creature is going to ride out an AI apocalypse, it is surely the rat. But they have their own challenges. New York, once a garbage-gobbling sewer dweller’s haven, has launched a successful
anti-rodent experiment
that is becoming a model for the rest of America. |