Ford CEO says new technologies like AI are leaving many workers behind, and companies need a plan

For all the talk about how artificial intelligence is going to transform our daily lives, Ford CEO Jim Farley said that technological advances are leaving some people behind.

It’s the factory employees, construction workers, and HVAC installers who are “the backbone of our society,” he said at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Friday, in an interview with author Walter Isaacson. And, yet productivity levels for what he calls these “essential economy” workers have fallen, even as new technologies...