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This book attempts to provide a definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and to explain how AI technology currently affects us and may affect us in the future. It also serves as a beginners guide to understanding AI.

There are benefits to AI but there are also real dangers. Therefore, efforts to regulate AI must strike a balance between harnessing its benefits while mitigating its risks. We need robust strategies to counteract the labor implications of AI. This will require strengthening legal protections against AI misuse, increasing transparency in AI-driven workforce decisions, and fostering ethical AI adoption through corporate responsibility and public advocacy.

In an era of AI's undeniable influence, collaboration among policymakers, enterprises, and the workforce is vital in shaping an equitable AI-driven work landscape. There is reason for optimism, however, that AI will not result in a net loss of jobs. Indeed, noted economists have determined that AI "will create more jobs than it eliminates, as has virtually all technology in the past." And recent studies indicate that this is currently happening.

Professor W. Sherman Rogers is professor of law at the Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. Professor Rogers is licensed to practice law in state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also a registered stockbroker and general securities principal, and has life and health insurance licenses. His multidisciplined background as a law professor, practicing attorney, stockbroker, and life and health insurance agent has provided him with a great deal of practical and theoretical knowledge in the area of law, entrepreneurship, and economics.