yoh4nn/istock In an interview with Axios’ s Mike Allen on Friday, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he was unconcerned about the possibility of machines replacing significant numbers of human workers in the near future, saying it was “not even on [the Trump administration’s] radar screen” and insisting that displacement would not be an issue for another 50-100 years. “In fact I’m optimistic,” he told Allen.
While there’s a healthy ongoing debate over just what impact automation will have on the workforce , Mnuchin’s assertion that it is not a matter of any particular urgency raised some eyebrows. “Just about […]
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