How You Can Raise Robot-Proof Children

Parents worry about a lot of things--like whether their children will get into college, or become drug addicts, or get abducted by strangers. But I spend a lot more time worrying that my children are going to live with us forever because robots have taken all their potential jobs. As somebody who has spent her adult life focused largely on two things--studying technology trends and raising children--I'm acutely aware of the effect that continued advances in artificial intelligence could have on my children's opportunities. After all, a recent McKinsey report predicts that by 2030, when my two children are just joining the workforce, up to 30% of today's current work will have been automated. The problem is, we don't know for certain which particular jobs will be automated years from now, because AI is constantly developing in surprising ways.