(By Edward D. Hess, professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business) Non-human employees are filling positions in all sorts of workplaces, and they are proving themselves to be fast, accurate, and reliable—more so than their human counterparts. The displacement of workers by technology is nothing new, of course, but the nature of our rapidly advancing technology is, as is the wide variety of roles it’s poised to replace. To survive in this new environment, we human beings face some pressing questions: What can we do better than smart machines? How can more of ...