Image by Office of Bill de Blasio via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en)) On September 5th, presidential candidate and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio published in tech magazine Wired that if elected president, he would “issue a robot tax for corporations displacing humans, and create a federal agency to oversee automation.”
De Blasio is a longshot for even the Democratic nomination—much less the presidency— polling at less than one percent . But his professed concerns about employment losses due to technological innovation and automation aren’t unusual, particularly among those younger than 25. But a new federal agency dedicated to […]
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