Prepare for robotics, AI to worsen the backlash of globalisation

Comparing the World Economic Forum at Davos and President Donald Trump's inaugural speech last week is like a rare observation of two parallel universes colliding. One is a gathering of the world's economic, banking and technology elite. The other was a speech wrapped in doses of hyperbole- a pugilistic, nationalistic call to arms against the elite that painted an unbearable American dystopia. At Davos, the talk of artificial intelligence was dominated not by business benefits and lucrative efficiencies, but the consequences for the humans caught on the wrong side of technological progress. They are only now starting to consider the changes they are inflicting upon the world.