AI's Evolving Role in the US Job Market

Even before artificial intelligence threatened to destroy humanity, it was poised to wipe out the workforce. So said legions of doomsayers, from tech executives to computer scientists to Wall Street analysts, who gained notoriety predicting mass unemployment as thinking algorithms mastered the complex tasks once performed by workers.

Dr. Marius Linguraru, director of AI research at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. , demonstrates a phone app he and his team developed to take facial measurements. (Photograph by Caroline Gutman)