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    Treasury secretary doesn't see AI as a threat to jobs

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    Nathan Ingraham
    Nathan Ingraham
    03.24.2017

    Anyone who's been paying attention to the rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence over the last decade likely will admit that those technologies are going to effect the economy in ways we can't fully predict quite yet. For treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, however, it's apparently business as usual. In an interview today with Mike Allen from Axios, Mnuchin said that technology that could displace jobs was "50 to 100 more years" away and that the issue is "not even on my radar screen."