It’s fashionable — and, in a way, understandable — to fear that robots and algorithms are primed to take away too many jobs to laugh off. Machines, the logic goes, are becoming so much better than humans at churning out products, even the kind that require skilled labor, that soon it’ll be a liability to employ people. Today’s trendy despair will certainly ensure we won’t be surprised if bots really take over the world. But the lack of creative and classical thinking about humans’ myriad advantages is now so pronounced that it’s hard to credit the pessimists.
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