A top Silicon Valley investor predicts robots will change our economy ‘on the order of the Industrial Revolution’

A top Silicon Valley investor predicts robots will change our economy 'on the order of the Industrial Revolution'

The robots are coming. Chris McGrath/Getty In San Francisco, you can order food from your favorite taqueria and have it delivered by a self-driving bot , or grab a latté from a robot-powered coffee kiosk.

Robots are joining the workforce in droves, and their arrival threatens to take away a number of jobs held by humans.

Sam Altman, president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, recently warned a crowd at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club that virtually no jobs are safe. Altman, who founded a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company, OpenAI, with Elon Musk, called on the tech industry to find solutions for […]

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