That’s where we’re heading as a country when it comes to technological advances and the threat they pose to millions of jobs. His Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin shockingly said in an interview last week that we’re “50 to 100 years” away from artificial intelligence threatening jobs. Yet the attention of people such as Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking should be a signal to Trump and Mnuchin that A.I. They might argue that then, as now, those advances led to more jobs. That will continue to be the case until policymakers, educators and innovators come together to address the reality before us.

Source: Washington Post April 01, 2017 12:22 UTC