Even an advanced degree or sophisticated set of skills won’t keep workers from being robbed of their jobs. AI will impact every level of the income scale. Take radiologists, who today earn an average of four hundred thousand dollars a year.9 They spend much of their day scanning CT and MRI scans looking for abnormalities. If you feed enough images into an AI-powered machine, it can be trained to identify normal and abnormal X-rays, whether they involve broken bones, hemorrhages, or cancerous tumors.
