Subject: What Happens if Robots Take the Jobs?
From: Darrell West <[email-masked]>
To: Darrell West <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:26:53 +0000

Emerging technologies like industrial robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are advancing at a rapid pace, but there has been little attention to their impact on employment and public policy. In a new Brookings paper entitled "What Happens If Robots Take the Jobs" at http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2015/10/26-emerging-tech-employment-public-policy-west, I address this topic. The paper examines what happens if robots end up taking jobs from humans and how this will affect public policy. Economist Larry Summers has predicted that if current trends continue, one-quarter of middle-aged men of the next generation will be out of work at any given time. We need to figure out how to provide benefits to those left behind in the new economy.

Darrell West
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Director, Center for Technology Innovation
Douglas Dillon Chair in Governance Studies
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