# How mechanization and AI have transformed the workforce — retained record

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We Are Not Machines by Sarah O’Connor.
Financial Times reporter O’Connor explores how mechanization and AI have transformed the workforce. The book places workers at the center of each story, highlighting the immediate impacts of the robot era on those whose lives have changed dramatically.
The Times hailed the book as “original and enlightening, rooted in reality and populated by people” with the “the kind of writing that AI will never replace.” Buy We Are Not Machines from your local bookstore.
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