I respect Krugman and agree with lot of what he states but I feel like he is missing something incredible important about today's technological advancement... AI is not just another advancement of Tech that may displace a single industry as he references cranes displacing Longshoremen but an advancement that will impact of all industries. Secondly, past technology advancement has been mechanic muscles making heavy load movements easier but the human component was still there to make the decisions... AI is mechanic minds making the decision pushing humans further down the decision tree. Take autonomous driving as an example. Anybody following Tesla or Waymo and any other countless companies competing in this space know that Level 5 is very much within our reach, I give it 3-5 years before we declare success. Once we declare success the people in the transport industry won't have years to transition out and look for something new, they will get crushed almost immediately. If Krugman is a Technologist as well as a Nobel prize winning Economist I wouldn't feel so anxious about our future but he unfortunately isn't that... All of his tools in his trade are LAGGING indicators, meaning he pulls data from the past to calculate the present and the near future... Think about that for a moment... How is he calculating AI as a variable when there was never a decision making variable ever in existence?,(reply>), @Dan Fontaine You have valid points and yet there are dozens of companies dropping billions into R&amp;D to prove you wrong... You hold to your beliefs as much as you want. I'm following the money and betting with them.,(reply>), @Dan Fontaine Okay so you're in the camp that providing AI systems with more data won't matter. You're view is that It will never be able to navigate icy roads. I think you're wrong, I actually know you're wrong but only time and more data will tell.,(reply>), @Dan Fontaine I get your point but I think you missed the fact that the problem you're pointing out is a minor hurdles, where calibration and more data will solve that problem. My point is the massive leap we've made where we have developed systems that can makes decisions and can self learn and solve problems on it's own. That is AI, it is literally hailed as the last human invention. You give it enough data sets and it will find the right solution, feeding it data is the only requirement... Think about that for a moment.