Why AI could destroy more jobs than it creates, and how to save them - TechRepublic

Erik Brynjolfsson has a dream of the future. A vision of a world where computers entrench the power of a wealthy elite and push the majority into poverty. A world where the rising tide of technology doesn't lift all boats, but sucks under all but the biggest ships. Brynjolfsson is an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-author of The Second Machine Age, a book that asks what jobs will be left once software has perfected the art of driving cars, translating speech and other tasks once considered the domain of humans. Dystopia is only one outcome foreseen by Brynjolfsson, but why does he even think it's a possibility? New technology has upended industries for millennia. But the advent of the power loom or steam engine didn't permanently rob men of labour. So what makes today different?