New developments in machine learning, artificial intelligence and automation inspired by the brain are finding uses in many industries and in our lives. There are clear signs that more and more current jobs are getting done by computers. Factories employ fewer workers as automation and robot replace humans. Clerical positions in offices doing data entry, tabulations and producing reports are being replaced by computer systems.The debate is not whether computers will impact jobs, but by how much and which jobs. Recently, there is also the debate around whether computers could turn sentient and become evil some day. Over the last few years, I have met many scientists and leading researchers working on these technologies. My decision to fund brain research is an outcome of many such meetings.There is consensus that in the short term, we have to worry about job losses. It is imminent unless we figure out what opportunities exist for job creation in the future and act on these now. It takes time for education, training and new business creation to create these new jobs.In the medium to long term, we have to understand the implications of machine intelligence. Our brain is made of the same atoms and molecules that a com puter has. It has so much more processing power and connections than the most powerful computers of today.But as computers become more powerful and more networked, and as we programme them to learn (machine learning), it is possible that it will exhibit human like behaviours - thinking, emotions etc. These are complex processes that we don’t fully understand today . We need to understand these to better manage the machines when they become more powerful and more human like.Fifty years back, machines were very poor in arithmetic, and humans could beat them. But today , machines can execute millions of arithmetic computations in a second and would beat humans. This is again a behaviour that is unique to only humans among living beings. But we created these machines that beat us. If we extend the same logic, and we teach machines to learn, what are the consequences?Already, machines are taking small decisions. For an example A GPS system in the car is automatically re-routing you based on traffic conditions. In future, we will have self-driving cars . Machines are going to control a lot more of our lives in the world of Internet of Things (IOT). This is the world where we will introduce machine learning and intelligence.Evil or not, big technology led changes are on their way and we can’t wish them away. It is important for us to discuss, debate, and understand the consequences so that we can be better prepared for the new era of pervasive computing.