Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had a good pro-progress answer at Wednesday's Republican presidential debate. Asked what he would do about the "22 percent of American workers [who] fear their jobs will be lost to a robot…and to artificial intelligence," Christie gave a reply that avoided anti-tech fear-mongering.
"What I think artificial intelligence offers us is an extraordinary opportunity to expand well beyond the productivity that we have now," he said. He rightly added: "We can't be afraid of innovation. America has been the great innovator of this world over the last 250 years, a technological innovator, a manufacturing innovator, and a freedom and governmental innovator. And that's why America has to continue to stand strong in the world, pro-innovation [and] pro-progress."
