Massive productivity gains will come from the automation of profit-generating tasks, but they will also eliminate jobs for huge numbers of workers. These layoffs won’t discriminate by the color of one’s collar, hitting highly educated white-collar workers just as hard as many manual laborers. A college degree—even a highly specialized professional degree—is no guarantee of job security when competing against machines that can spot patterns and make decisions on levels the human brain simply can’t fathom.
