This Brookings Institution report ranks Greensboro-High Point as the second-most-vulnerable metro region to job loss due to AI and robotics. Winston-Salem is number six. 

This WSJ article takes a closer look at how those losses might occur in a warehouse/distribution economy. 

Brookings makes a decent effort to discuss solutions, but it's hard to see where the political will to implement them is going to come from.

Last year I discussed this country's readiness for the changes that already are well underway with MIT's Eric Brynjolfsson. He told me, "We should be doing a better job of preparing ourselves. Instead, we’re impoverishing ourselves. It’s a shameful public-policy failure." 

North Carolina and its local governments need to make this a top priority.

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Where were you 2 years ago? https://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/01/cities-with-jobs-at-risk-from.html