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White House report cautiously optimistic about job-killing AI

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Re: Welcome to the future!

> "...there were people from circa 1950 concerned about computers "takin' our jobs!" and you know what, that never happened..."

Sure it did. Think stenography pool. But, while jobs were eliminated by computers, more were created. Not sure what the final score is on that, but I'd say that nearly all the old lost jobs were soul-killingly dull and better off gone, just like the assembly line jobs replaced by robots.

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