Alec Ross: COVID unleashes robots – and the hit on America's workforce will be enormous

This coronavirus pandemic has massively accelerated investment and developments in artificial intelligence and this will have far-reaching implications on the American workforce.

Vocational education needs to move into the digital age and focus increasingly on technology skills.

I saw this firsthand when I visited a factory where a company was packaging pharmaceuticals. Because of a surge in COVID infections, the factory closed to workers for a period of weeks at a time during the winter when its medicines were most needed. Remarkably, the factory kept on working without human beings on the factory floor.