The Aristobots

SUNDAY READ: For centuries, we defined ourselves by work. Artificial intelligence is making that less plausible. AQL offers a seditious — but possibly useful — proposal.

In recent weeks, it seems that concerns about Artificial Intelligence disrupting too much, too fast — enough to trigger major societal consequences — have crossed a Rubicon. Increasingly, it no longer feels gauche or backward to worry that a free market in which so many of our professional functions can be automated may not reliably generate enough jobs…