Scott Lewis is the Co-Founder and CEO of KickFactory -- a personalized engagement platform that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to identify potential social sales opportunities. The program finds a potential customer based on social media activities, suggests the best reply for a brand (their client), and the best place for a conversion. Scott shares how KickFactory combines the power of AI with community managers – real people – who confirm the identification of a prospective buyer and confirm the reply message (provided by AI) before sending the message. In other words, it's AI engaged in sales actions! KickFactory started in 2013 when a friend of Scott's opened a barbecue restaurant.

Among the many, many Democrats who will seek the party's presidential nomination in 2020, most probably agree on a handful of core issues: protecting DACA, rejoining the Paris climate agreement, unraveling President Trump's tax breaks for the wealthy. Only one of them will be focused on the robot apocalypse. That candidate is Andrew Yang, a well-connected New York businessman who is mounting a longer-than-long-shot bid for the White House. Mr. Yang, a former tech executive who started the nonprofit organization Venture for America, believes that automation and advanced artificial intelligence will soon make millions of jobs obsolete -- yours, mine, those of our accountants and radiologists and grocery store cashiers. He says America needs to take radical steps to prevent Great Depression-level unemployment and a total societal meltdown, including handing out trillions of dollars in cash.