Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic

dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. Today's program is going to

cover a number of interesting things. One more discussion brief on artificial intelligence,

a discussion of racism in American universities, more on the tensions and the economics of U.S., China, and the relationship,

then a short word on a very important singer who died recently, Tony Bennett.

The second half of today's program will be an interview with Ben Cohen, the co-founder and

former CEO of Ben and Jerry's ice cream with a set of his views of America

that I think you'll find especially interesting.

Let me begin, as I have in recent programs, telling you all that there's a person working

with us to whom you can deliver information, clippings, items you think would be worth us

covering on this program. Please send any of those suggestions to the following. Charlie,

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Those who've done that know who you are.

I want to repeat something about artificial intelligence. I am really unnerved, to be honest,

about all of the stories I read, which are endless speculations about how many millions

of people are going to lose their jobs because of artificial intelligence.

As if a technological breakthrough is necessarily a danger to working people.

That was never true and it is not true now.

The problem has never been with technology. All kinds of breakthroughs

have been made from every kind of machine to every kind of robot or software or electricity or

atomic energy. The question was always what will be the labor-saving effect?

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