Watch the longer clip that starts at 33:02 (and importantly carries on much longer): https://www.c-span.org/video/?425894-1/treasury-secretary-steven-mnuchin-ta

Watch the longer clip that starts at 33:02 (and importantly carries on much longer): https://www.c-span.org/video/?425894-1/treasury-secretary-steven-mnuchin-talks-axios-cofounder-mike-allen&start=1982 https://www.c-span.org/video/?425894-1/treasury-secretary-st... In context, it is clear that he is referring specifically to the idea of massive structural unemployment rather than the long-standing situation where new technology displaces jobs but people find new ones. I think this can be regarded as pretty mainstream. His AI referent is specifically clarified as not being self-driving cars (he expects) but r2d2 robots that can replace human interviewers (he doesn't expect soon).