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I had the pleasure of joining an intimate dinner hosted by Fast Company (not pictured above) this week and for the 3rd time in as many days found myself embroiled in a conversation about AI and its impact on industry. It was a room full of smart people talking passionately about the robot apocalypse; in this case, through the lens of self-driving cars and its impact on the humans in the Taxi and Trucking industries. There were tons of great points around the table about timelines, and augmenting vs. replacing but the one forgone conclusion seemed to be that the continued rise of ever-more sophisticated industry means… And while folks brought up the possibility of a Universal Basic Income Tax, there was one thing I didn't hear from anyone. In fact, one thing that I haven't heard anywhere in the discussion around what we're going to do when AI really gets cranking in all of its commercial and industrial: Can we retrain all 3.5mm truck drivers and 250K taxi drivers in the US if their jobs largely go away over the next 10–20 years? Can we make some of them Road Performance quality control experts?