Americans at Work in the Age of Robots and Artificial Intelligence

Harvard FAS

Where will the coming generation of Americans (say, today’s 18-year-olds) find jobs? And will the jobs be worth having? People have worried about losing their jobs to technology at least since the Luddites 200 years ago. In the aggregate, they have been wrong. The automobile put lots of stable boys and saddle makers out of work, but it created vastly more jobs making cars, fueling them, and repairing them, and it opened the way for whole new industries like roadside motels and restaurants.…