AI Doesn't Eliminate Jobs, It Creates Them

Over the past two years, as the debate over immigration policies has grown increasingly heated, an argument was often introduced as a counter to some of the more abrasive stances. At first glance, it may have appeared to be a fact-based response to the animosity and divisiveness that defined the debate. For those of us with deeper, first-hand knowledge though, it was just as fear-based and misinformed. The argument was most succinctly summed up by an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, "Robots, not immigrants, are taking American jobs." It states, "A White House report released in December says 83% of U.S. jobs in which people make less than $20 per hour are now, or soon will be, subject to automation … and warns Americans to get ready for an era of 60% unemployment."