Now our country is grappling with a new wave of job displacement brought on by artificial intelligence. A global pandemic has accelerated the trend of humans being replaced by machines that don’t call in sick and don’t have to quarantine. Millions of jobs have disappeared, and millions more will disappear in the future. It’s not clear how the country will cope. Some people have begun to talk about “universal basic income,” a naked admission that a significant portion of the American people no longer fits into the economy.
