OH STUDENTS AI : BELLS PRECIS

IN TOWNS like mine - outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose.  Then people. Then Students..................

Now the same forces are climbing the economic ladder. Yet the world, say Washington, remains fixated on global competition and growth, as if new work will always appear to replace what's been lost.

Maybe it will. NO, it won't.

But given A.I.'s rapacity, it seems far more likely that it won't.

If our leaders fail to prepare, the silence that once followed the closing of factory doors, will spread through office parks and home offices -and the grieff long borne by the working class may soon be borne by us all.

The World Students Society thanks Brian Groh.