Mark Gilbert , Columnist

Learn a Craft to Survive the Coming Robot Apocalypse

To remain employed in an AI-dominated workplace, train as an artisan.

January 6, 2023 at 4:14 PM UTC

Mark Gilbert is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering asset management. A former London bureau chief for Bloomberg News, he is author of “Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable.”

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