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Trump Wants Tariffs to Bring Back U.S. Jobs. They Might Speed Up AI Automation Instead
Trump wants tariffs to bring jobs back to America. They might speed up AI automation instead.
Announcing his tariffs in the White House Rose Garden last week, President Trump said the move would help reopen shuttered car factories in Michigan and bring various other jobs back to the U.S. But if tariffs persist in the medium term, Acemoglu tells TIME, he expects companies “will have no choice but to bring some of their supply chains back home—but they will do it via AI and robots.” (Those tariffs did in fact lead to job losses in affected industries anyway, a Federal Reserve study found, due to higher production costs and reduced export competitiveness.)
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