You’ve heard it before: the robots are coming and they’re going to steal our jobs. But, wait a second — the Economic Policy Institute has crunched the data and is now arguing that the effects of automation are a little overstated. One of the authors of the report, Lawrence Mishel, joined us to break down why and what he thinks workers should actually be worrying about. Then to cap off the week, we’ll play Silicon Tally with Rachel Metz, an editor at the MIT Technology Review.

You’ve heard it before: the robots are coming and they’re going to steal our jobs. But, wait a second — the Economic Policy Institute has crunched the data and is now arguing that the effects of automation are a little overstated. One of the authors of the report, Lawrence Mishel, joined us to break down why and what he thinks workers should actually be worrying about. Then to cap off the week, we’ll play Silicon Tally with Rachel Metz, an editor at the MIT Technology Review.