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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, November 26th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Artificial intelligence could help bring down the cost of college. How? We'll explain. Plus,

one tech CEO has cracked the code on working with President-elect Donald Trump. What's his playbook? And will others

follow suit? Our reporter Chip Cutter takes a look at how some corporate executives could work

with a new administration. Up first, a lot of the discussion around AI involves its potential to replace millions of jobs.

But Kartik Hosniger, a professor of technology and digital business at the Wharton School of the

University of Pennsylvania, says that there are potential upsides to AI, especially when it comes to

cutting costs for big expenses, like college and even healthcare.

He says that AI has the ability to bring down prices for more complex and expensive services

by boosting worker productivity and automating tasks.

Kartik Hosanager wrote about this for the Wall Street Journal, and he's with me now.

Kartik, let's take a step back for a minute.

Can you give an example of a time when automation drove down prices?

So, for example, with industrialization of the textile mills a century or two ago,

we saw a pretty significant increase in worker productivity as a result

of that, which helped actually bring down the cost of textiles and help change what was really

a small cottage industry into a massive global industry, where bringing down the costs, increased demand for these products, and help create

ultimately large-scale employment for a lot of people, but also just massive reduction in the

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