Sarah O’Connor, a reporter for the Financial Times, explores in her book how mechanization and artificial intelligence have reshaped the workforce. Rather than focusing solely on abstract theories or technological forecasts, the book foregrounds the lived experiences of individual workers to show the concrete effects of robots and automated systems on employment.
O’Connor organizes the narrative around personal stories that illustrate the immediate impacts when workplaces introduce robots or AI-driven tools. This worker-centered approach highlights that technological change is measurable not only in economic indicators but also in daily decisions, career shifts, and family lives.
The Times described the book as “original and enlightening, rooted in reality and populated by people,” and added that it contains “the kind of writing that AI will never replace.” The volume is titled We Are Not Machines; readers interested in the full account can obtain it from their local bookstore.
This article is based on reporting by Sarah O’Connor; the short notice above is credited to Mary Lawrence Ware.
