Tech leaders say automation will affect a huge number of industries, many of them ones we would not expect. The normal tools typically used to address economic change, like welfare and retraining, are not enough to address what automation will do to the economy. But advancements in artificial intelligence are intensifying this debate. In Silicon Valley, there are lots of experiments in automation. There’s the robot at Lowe’s home improvement store in Sunnyvale, Calif., that checks inventory. There’s the "robot butler" working at a hotel in Cupertino. And then there’s Uber, which is experimenting with driverless taxis and trucks.
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