Why The Global Economy Needs Technoskeptics
And US politicians don't tell the truth about job losses
iStock.com / qingyi
(Update December 2023. This article first ran in The Technoskeptic and Newsweek in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. Sadly, it holds up extraordinarily well. Despite two presidential administrations since, nothing has changed in how both major parties’ candidates discuss the real driver for American job losses, which is to say-Andrew Yang’s quixotic candidacy aside-they never do. Primary elections in the US start in less than a month, and neither party has a vision for stemming or coping with massive job losses due to AI. Although the US may be the first country to experience mass AI-fueled job loss if economists’ estimates are right, it will not be the last.)
The presidential election has been viewed as a litmus test for how Americans think about the economy. To generalize, coastal urbanites think things are going more or less OK and rewarded Hillary Clinton, while rust-best and rural Americans viscerally feel the economy’s unfairness and voted for Don…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to The Technoskeptic Magazine to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.