Artificial Intelligence

This was the year automation started taking over the workforce

A worker stands next to robotic arms welding pump truck part at a factory of the Foton Loxa Heavy Machinery Co in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China May 24, 2019.

Job-replacing tech has directly driven the income gap since the late 1980s. Image: REUTERS/Stringer

Peter Dizikes
Writer, MIT News Office
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