Robots Stole Blue Collar Jobs, Now AI Is Coming for White Collar Workers

January 5, 2020

Of course, this is not the first time American workers have been impacted or potentially impacted by technology. “There have been technologies that have been implemented that didn’t lead to the wide-scale job losses,” says William M. Rodgers III, professor of public policy and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, “but that doesn’t mean we don’t have to have a public policy response.”

Voice of America, January 2, 2020

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