A New Way To Understand Automation
We speak with one of the leading scholars of automation about its evolving impacts on society.
For one of the most distinguished critics of automation, MIT economist Daron Acemoglu has been, ironically, cranking out research on the subject lately like he's a machine. He and his co-author Pascual Restrepo have produced so many studies on the subject that he couldn't tell us how many they've done. "I've lost count," he says.
Their conveyer belt of research has been spitting out some startling facts. They find, for instance, that in America between 1993 and 2007. Last week, Acemoglu and Restrepo released that suggests as much as 70 percent of the rise of inequality in America since 1980 is due
