New Blue-Collar Jobs Will Survive the Rise of AI

Twelve candidates are divided into three teams and given the task of assembling a box. Twelve Rolls Royce employees stand around them, one assigned to each candidate, taking notes. The box is a prop, and the test has nothing to do with programming or repairing the robots that make engine parts here. "We are looking at what they say, we are looking at what they do, we are looking at the body language of how they are interacting," says Lorin Sodell, the plant manager. This story is part of the The New Economy podcast series.