Few can deny that there will be huge social, political, and economic transformation as a result of AI, robotics, and digital technologies. But there are many uncertainties about how those changes will play out, especially in the critical area of economics. Does it mean the end of work? From a historical perspective, we have been at similar crossroads before, MIT Economics Professor, Daron Acemoglu, said at the MIT IDE Annual Conference on May 24. Speaking about Automation and the Future of Work, Acemoglu said that many 20th-Century economists -- including John Maynard Keynes and Wassily Leontief -- also worried about technological unemployment in the 1930s and 1950s.