Over at Mother Jones, Kevin Drum has a quick post rebutting the two worst objections he hears to the fear that AI-empowered robots will take all our jobs. The arguments are: If automation were taking away jobs, we’d see it in high productivity growth figures. But productivity growth is low, not high. Automation creates jobs, it doesn’t eliminate them. Just take a look at the Industrial Revolution. Drum dismisses these as follows. The first, he says, is meaningless, “because AI doesn’t exist yet.” He predicts that “we’ll see the first glimmers of true AI in about ten years, with […]
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