This year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where business leaders’ public positions on automation’s impact on workers did not match the views they shared privately.
There’s no doubt technology is shaking up the American workplace. But as machines and software get ever smarter, how many more workers will they displace, and which ones?
It’s abundantly clear that policy makers are lagging behind the speed of technology development, and often don’t understand the uneven consequences their policies can inflict.