[Opinion] Chris Christie for robots and tech progress

Chris Christie for robots and tech progress

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. "I think artificial intelligence offers us is an extraordinary opportunity to expand well beyond the productivity that we have n…