My Visit to the Obama White House: AI, the Future of Jobs, and a VC's Letter to the Next… – NextWorld Insights

In the final months of the Obama White House, I was honored to be invited by the President's National Economic Council to discuss the recent report, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy. I was joined by several other venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to comment on how the tech community sees AI -- its potential for positive impact as well as the implications for our workforce. As a VC at NextWorld Capital, a big area of my investment focus is on the companies that are digitizing and automating the physical world, including drones, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence. As an undergraduate and graduate student at MIT studying AI in the late 90's, I saw the commercial potential of technologies such as computer vision and robotics, but now I am convinced that AI is ready to drive systemic changes to businesses and services of all kinds. This new wave of technology will have an outsized impact on what I call the "field office," operated by deskless workers are building and servicing physical goods.