Steve Mnuchin, for one, welcomes our new robot overlords.
The treasury secretary said during an interview with Axios on Friday that he was “optimistic” rather than anxious about the effects advances in automation might have on the workforce.
“I’m not worried,” Mnuchin told the site. “Quite frankly, I’m optimistic — that’s what increases productivity.”
(“I’m not worried” seems to be a common refrain for Mnuchin, who repeated the phrase at least three times throughout the 40-minute interview.)
Mnuchin also seems blissfully ignorant of the timeframe in which most experts expect artificial intelligence to begin doing low-level jobs. Read more…
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