The question of how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact human well-being is something of a Rorschach test. It depends on whom you ask. For some, the advent of "smart" everything portends a future of rising living standards and unimagined opportunities for human flourishing. Others help us see the dark side. Without going "full Terminator," some of the best informed people in the AI field see an economic transformation that threatens social cohesion as human labor -- mental and physical -- becomes slow, antiquated and artisanal and is ultimately consolidated and replaced by the unlimited energy, dynamism, and rocketing productivity of an algorithm-driven world.