Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin listens at right as President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Feb. 22. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin listens at right as President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Feb. 22. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last week made a dangerously ignorant prediction. When asked about the future of artificial intelligence, automation and the workforce, this was his reply: “It's not even on our radar screen,” he said at a media event, adding that significant workforce disruption due to AI is “50 to 100” years away.
