A Robot Took My Job – Was It a Robot or AI?

Summary: The argument in the popular press about robots taking our jobs fails in the most fundamental way to differentiate between robots and AI. Here we try to identify how each contributes to job loss and what the future of AI Enhanced Robots means for employment. There's been a lot of contradictory opinion in the press recently about future job loss from robotics and AI. They range from Bill Gates' hand wringing assertion that we should slow this down by taxing robots to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's seemingly luddite observation "In terms of artificial intelligence taking over the jobs, I think we're so far away from that that it's not even on my radar screen. I think it's 50 or 100 more years."