Former Obama official on AI anxiety and the depression nobody remembers — and the training model that gives him hope

Imagine one in five Americans out of work, unemployment jumping from 3% to 18% in just two years as machine-replaced Americans went looking for work. Soup kitchens lining the streets of every major city.
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Imagine one in five Americans out of work, unemployment jumping from 3% to 18% in just two years as machine-replaced Americans went looking for work. Soup kitchens lining the streets of every major city. Whole states even harder hit: over a third of New York workers unemployed, nearly half in Michigan. That was America in 1893 — not the Great Depression, but the one that came before it.
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Former Obama official on AI anxiety and the depression nobody remembers — and the training model that gives him hope
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