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Remember 2013, when Very Serious researchers and pundits warned us that AI & robotics would cut employment by a factor of 2 within 15 to 20 years?
US unemployment has gone from 8% to 3.6% in the 6 years since.
US unemployment has gone from 8% to 3.6% in the 6 years since.
Now, do you remember 1928? 
The irony here is that 2013-2019 has seen an incredible boom in the deployment of AI in processes and products across most industries, and a not insignificant fraction of the drop in unemployment is linked to the economic windfall of AI
