What Happens to Humans When AI Takes Over Work?

What Happens to Humans When AI Takes Over Work? What if the very thing that has defined us for centuries—work—suddenly became unnecessary? This groundbreaking book explores the human cost of artificial intelligence in the age of intelligent labor. Across industries and professions once thought safe—medicine, law, trucking, finance, construction—AI now performs faster, cheaper, and more accurately than humans. But the real disruption isn't just economic. It's psychological, cultural, and existential. Through powerful real-life narratives—Maria, the Detroit auto worker displaced overnight; Dr. Chen, the radiologist stripped of his professional identity; Michael, the truck driver rendered obsolete by machines—the book reveals the collapse of work-based identity and the unraveling of meaning in a post-work society. Work once gave us status, structure, community, and dignity. Without it, millions face disorientation, purposelessness, and the painful question of relevance. Yet within this rupture lies an invitation: to reimagine what it means to live, contribute, and flourish beyond productivity. Provocative, urgent, and deeply human, What Happens to Humans When AI Takes Over Work? is both a warning and a vision—challenging us to confront the future with courage, creativity, and new definitions of human worth.