An Obama official says the biggest threat from AI is that we won't invest enough in it

In 2014, the Pew Research Center asked a panel of 1,896 experts if artificial intelligence would destroy more jobs than it created within a decade. The answer, including responses from Google's chief economist and MIT computer scientists, was definitive: they have no idea (pdf). The group came down almost 50-50 on both sides of the argument. What's virtually certain is that AI will cause upheaval in the labor markets. And the best way to combat that may be more of the same.