Hate to Break It to Steve Mnuchin, But AI's Already Taking Jobs

Today, in 2017, the president's top economic advisor said he had no worries about robots putting people out of work. "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," Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told an audience in Washington. "I think it's 50 or 100 more years." President Trump can go back to horsing around on his big rig confident in the knowledge self-driving trucks won't replace millions of drivers in a few years. Artificial intelligence is not only coming for jobs, the jobs it's coming for are the precious few left over after old-school automation already came for so many others.