Who says the world is going to hell and the future is bleak? Artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and job automation hold out the hope of less work, more leisure and long weekends every weekend.

The US is in for a decade of robust economic growth, thanks to artificial intelligence, automation, robots, and quantum computers, according to market veteran Ed Yardeni.

The Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom worries that artificial intelligence poses a greater threat to humanity than climate change, and the bestselling historian Yuval Noah Harari warns that the ...