On Thursday’s show, Tucker Carlson connected the very important dots between automation-fueled job loss and immigration. He had seen the preview of the upcoming Sixty Minutes segment titled, Venture capitalist: AI will displace 40 percent of world’s jobs in as soon as 15 years.
Here’s a teaser video from Sixty Minutes (1:38 minutes in length) which is a bit longer than the two sentences Tucker presented:
Clearly the headline got attention in the Carlson office, since 15 years is a tangible time frame, and 40 percent of the world’s workforce unemployed means a social earthquake we cannot begin to imagine.
Regarding recent events, it’s simply crazy for America to continue admitting low-skilled uneducated foreigners from Central America who claim asylum at the border and then disappear after being released. There’s no place in the modern American workplace for non-English-speaking rural people with sixth-grade educations because the world has changed. Even as ultra-cheap labor, Hondurans et al will become unemployable when smart machines become cheaper than workers.
Machines and AI are about to change the world fundamentally, yet Washington remains on snooze mode, still stuck on importing cheap labor when that whole endeavor is about to be made history by advances in technology. Remember:
Automation and artificial intelligence make immigration obsolete.
Tucker begins with a slam of clueless reporter Jim Acosta, and the material about AI starts at around three minutes in:
Spare video here with audio below: