Automation that could eliminate countless jobs may be the next big political challenge in the U.S., and politicians are already starting to discuss how to deal with a potentially inevitable unemployment surge driven by robots and artificial intelligence.
If automation and A.I. really could wipe out almost half of jobs in the U.S., the government is still unprepared for it. Recent A.I. products like ChatGPT could herald a future where even white-collar workers are pushed aside by artificial intelligence. And a 2020 study found that adding a single robot to expedite manufacturing jobs destroyed 3.3 jobs nationwide.
