Robots build a Chrysler vehicle at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Michigan in 2014. (Paul Sancya / AP) Robots and artificial intelligence are winning our jobs and an apocalypse is upon us, or so the employment horror story goes.
Innovation and automation are nothing new, nor is the fear they inspire. What’s changed is the interests of economists and policymakers who once tried to reassure anxious workers but now, after presiding over decades of labor market decline, are delighted to have a scapegoat. So we hear that the abandonment of the American workforce has been the unavoidable result of […]
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