If the robot threat proves overblown and automation is not as transformative as is predicted or feared, then none of those efforts will have been in vain-they are answers not just to the threat of robots, but also to many other issues that challenge U.S. economic potential. “Our economy has a lot of problems,” says Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon. “If you’re looking for new problems, it’s not robots.” It makes more sense to adapt to robot’s taking our old jobs
Then to fight against it. Who knows? Once we figure out how to work with robots, we might even learn to love them.