AI 'work-free society' may not be happier, says Banerjee of MIT

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Can technological advances make people happier when income inequality and low growth are already growing problems in developed countries? Abhijit Banerjee, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019, says that public investment in artificial intelligence for education should be promoted to prepare for a near future in which jobs will be lost to it