Viewpoint: AI may not steal every job, but it will disrupt employment

Viewpoint: AI may not steal every job, but it will disrupt employment

While longstanding fears that robots would one day make human workers obsolete have largely been put to rest — the guiding principle is that artificial intelligence will enhance, rather than replace, us — automation is still on track to radically change the workplace.

In an article for The New York Times , David Deming, PhD, director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard Kennedy School, suggested that labor laws be adapted to account for the AI-powered transformation of American employment.

For example, though e-commerce is currently boosting the need for light-truck and delivery-service drivers, Dr. […]

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