Here’s a more useful study from Oxford University suggesting that almost 50% of US jobs could be lost to AI and Automation (AIA) over the next two decades.
Anger in Midwestern states over job-losses in manufacturing / industry due to automation and globalization is one of the main reasons Trump was elected (not the only one, sure, but without it, Clinton doesn’t lose the Midwest). So here’s what worries me: what will happen in future elections if there are much greater numbers of angry people for unscrupulous demagogues to appeal to?
AIA should be immensely beneficial to humanity… but only if we accompany it with fundamental economic policy changes (and probably not just UBI or Mincome). Unless, that is, you believe that private enterprise and markets are going to solve this in the absence of fundamental economic policy changes at the national government level… which I do not: the numbers are too large, the time frame is too short, and not everyone wants to be (or can quickly become) a new-age creative and entrepreneurial knowledge worker.
Anyone have any links to good ideas as to how to deal with this?
