Opinion | Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Us or Empower Us?

I took three Waymo rides this month while in San Francisco for an economics conference. The smooth trips made for a haunting vision of the potential future of artificial intelligence. Inside the cabs, there was gentle New Age music and no one in the driver’s seat.

Such could be the future of the economy in general if artificial intelligence substitutes for human labor in more and more occupations. The unemployed masses could come to depend on the charity of billionaires and trillionaires…