マーティン・フォード（Martin Ford）は、アメリカの未来学者、テクノロジー起業家。シリコンバレーでソフトウェア企業を創業・経営した経験を持ち、AI、ロボット、自動化の進展が雇用、所得格差、経済、社会に及ぼす影響を長年にわたって分析してきた。代表作『ロボットの脅威 人の仕事がなくなる日』（原題 "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future"）では、ロボットやAIによる自動化が製造業だけでなく、事務、金融、医療などのホワイトカラーや高度な知識を必要とする仕事にも広がる可能性を指摘。生産性が向上しても雇用や所得がそれに伴って増えない経済が生まれる危険性を分析し、技術革新による豊かさを社会全体に分配するための経済制度や政策の必要性を論じている。同書は2015年のFinancial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Awardを受賞した。
Martin Ford is an American futurist and technology entrepreneur whose work focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation on employment, inequality, the economy, and society. Drawing in part on his experience founding and running a Silicon Valley software company, he has examined how rapidly advancing technologies could reshape work and the distribution of economic gains. In "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future," Ford argues that automation is expanding beyond manufacturing into white-collar and knowledge-intensive occupations, including jobs in finance, healthcare, and professional services. He examines the possibility of an economy in which productivity continues to rise without corresponding growth in employment and incomes and considers the economic and policy changes needed to distribute the benefits of technological progress more broadly. The book won the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
