Just Pinned to Domestic and Global News: California would-be gov preps for battle against automatons... The graduating computer science students at UC Berkeley had just finished chuckling at a joke about fleets of Google buses Facebook shuttles and Uber-copters lining up to whisk them them to elite jobs in Silicon Valley. The commencement ceremony for a cohort of students who one professor confided were worth around $25bn was a feel-good affair. Until that is Gavin Newsom took to the lectern and burst the bubble. The smooth-talking Democrat and frontrunner to win Californias gubernatorial race next year warned the students that the plumbing of the world is radically changing. The tech industry that would make them rich Newsom declared was also rendering millions of other peoples jobs obsolete and fueling enormous disparities in wealth. Your job is to exercise your moral authority he said. It is to do the kinds of things in life that cant be downloaded. That is not the kind of message computer engineers tend to hear. But Newsom who has been waiting in the wings as Californias lieutenant governor for the last seven years has put the consequences of automation and the center of his cam
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