John Arnold op-ed: job training is the popular AI-disruption fix that barely works
robseamans · x · 2026-09-18
Investor John Arnold published a WSJ op-ed arguing that job training is the most popular policy response to future AI disruption — he calls it the Dolly Parton of social policy because everyone likes it. The problem, he says, is that while there are scores of job-training programs today, few of them actually work.
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