WASHINGTON — Should we be preparing for the coming invasion of job-stealing, career-crushing robots? It’s a question that’s moved from science-fiction novels to the tip of policy-makers’ tongues.
Canadian and American policy-makers have just delivered very different answers.
Canada’s finance minister tabled a budget that mentioned artificial intelligence and skills training dozens of times, with entire sections on each subject and $5.2 billion for worker re-training.His U.S. counterpart: not so worried about a wave of job-killing automation."It’s not even on our radar screen," U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told the Axios website last week. "(It’s) 50-100 more years (away)… I’m not […]
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