Trump's Treasury secretary is an Artificial Intelligence denier

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last week made a dangerously ignorant prediction. When asked about the future of artificial intelligence, automation and the workforce, this was his reply: "It's not even on our radar screen," he said at a media event, adding that significant workforce disruption due to AI is "50 to 100" years away. "I'm not worried at all" about robots displacing humans in the near future, Mnuchin said. The Trump administration has repeatedly rejected evidence-based research and objective analysis on issues that include climate and human biology. When confronted with a complicated technology, like machine learning, administration officials now appear to be rejecting curiosity, too.