The robots are coming for our jobs—again. Last month, The New York Times profiled an AI startup called Mechanize, Inc., whose founders were brutally honest about its goals: to automate the entire workforce within the next 30 years. But one of them, Tamay Besiroglu, tried to assuage those who might fear such a future. As tech reporter Kevin Roose wrote, “Mr. Besiroglu said he believed that A.I. would eventually create ‘radical abundance’ and wealth that could be redistributed to laid-off workers,