A robot job invasion: U.S. feds shrug it off, Canada feds fret, so who’s right?
WASHINGTON — Should we be preparing for the coming invasion of job-stealing, career-crushing robots? It’s a question that’s moved from science-fiction novels to the tip of policy-makers’ tongues.
Canadian and American policy-makers have just delivered very different answers.
Canada’s finance minister tabled a budget that mentioned artificial intelligence and skills training dozens of times, with entire sections on each subject and $5.2 billion for worker re-training.
His U.S. counterpart: not so worried about a wave of job-killing automation.