Advanced systems will continue to help people do their jobs better instead of replacing them. This article is part of an MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. Though artificial intelligence systems are already becoming a part of daily life, recent debates about AI and the future of work have gained a sense of urgency. The late Stephen Hawking worried that humans "couldn't compete, and would be superseded" by machines, while Tesla founder Elon Musk has suggested that competition in AI could lead to World War III. The Economist reported earlier this year that nearly half of the jobs in 32 developed countries surveyed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) were vulnerable to automation, declaring, "a wave of automation anxiety has hit the West."