The WalrusBut what if promises around AI productivity do not necessarily translate into benefits to society?1930 essay, the economist John Maynard Keynes made similar predictions, coining the term “technological unemployment” to refer to “unemployment due to our discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour. Just as the computer and smartphone have physically distorted the human nervous system and body, taking a considerable toll on our health and well-being, we are told that we have to adapt to the machines—for example, that we need to develop “machine intelligence”—rather than the other way around. For two decades, Canadians have relied on our thought-provoking journalism to make sense of our world