martin ford is a software entrepreneur. he has appeared into the future economy and sees the world where potentially hundreds of millions of skilled workers are out of a job. >> i would say that if you look far enough into the future, there is no job anywhere in our economy, there is nothing that anyone does that is completely safe. that includes artists and novelists, the jobs you would imagine now are completely beyond the scope of artificial intelligence. millions of jobs are going to be lost. it is unlikely enough jobs will be created to absorb those workers. ♪ narrator: martin ford is a software entrepreneur who has a chilling vision of the future. his best-selling books have put him at the forefront of a movement which worries about technology, the speed of growth, and the immense potential it has to change the world. this is the fourth industrial revolution, the advent of machines powered by artificial intelligence, which have the potential to make redundant hundreds of millions of workers across the planet. it is a

martin ford, author of "rise of the robots."ing up, stocking stuffers, the shares that have historically done well this time of year. >>> the justice department is reportedly investigating advertising agencies. according to the "wall street journal," the department is looking into whether ad agencies steered business to their in-house units over third party firms by rigging the bidding process. the production and post production of commercials is a $5 billion business. the report pressured shares of two of the largest ad firms, interpublic group and omni com. >> a lot of people spent a lot of money this time of year. consumers spend it on gifts, investors on stocks. and as dominic chu reports, some names have historically performed far better than others at this special time of year. >> 'tis the season for making that list and checking it twice. and it's not just about whether the kids have been naughty or nice. it's also about taking stock of what's in your investment portfolio, and how they're doing. historically speaking, som

about joining us now for two visions of the future, tom, author of "only humans need apply" and martin ford, author of the book "rise of the robots." gentlemen, thank you for joining us. concern.ot a new human jobs have survived multiple technological revolutions. martin, i'll start with you. what makes this one any different? >> well, i think the biggest different is the robots, sort of machines, the limitedms are, in a sense, beginning to think. they're taking on brainpower, cognitive capabilities. it's not just about muscle power or manipulative type jobs anymore. becoming intellectual work as well. that's going to have a much more broad-based impact, going to scale across not just whitecturing but a lot of collar jobs. a lot of jobs in the service sector. a more tom, you have positive view in that humans plus machines equals the best case scenario. what incentive is there for a company like ford or carrier, companyconditioning that has been such a hot button issue, what is the incentive for them to add automation at this point rather than keeping the jobs they have? >> well, you know, p

martin ford wrote the rise of the robots and joins us with steve liesman. greg hayes laid it out plainly, clearly and bluntly. to paraphrase what he said for our audience, very clear. okay, i'm going to keep the jobs here, but guess what, because they're expensive, it is just going to hasten the pace of replacing these men and women with robots and not just them, what do we do if anything about this? >> well, i don't think we can stop it. that's basically correct. it is inevitable. part of capitalism there will be this continuous drive for more efficiency. in this example with amazon, not just about reducing labor costs at all. they have come up with something disruptive. i don't think there is anyone who doesn't hate standing in line at a retail store and they f figured out a way to get rid of the lines. this is not just about eliminating jobs, it is going to create enormous advantages for consumers. >> technology also does create plenty of jobs. let's talk about amazon's drone delivery initiative. you see it is going to kill u.p.s., yeah, but maybe the u.

martin. defense con track iters he criticize ford bloated spending projects.esident elect said they mostly discussed what he called lockheed's out of control costs for the f-35 fighter jet program. >> a little bit of a dance. we're going to get the cost done and get it done beautifully. >> taken aim at spending to $4 billion to replace air force one. boeing's dennis mullenberg said the price tag wouldn't be that high. >> we work on air force one because it is important to our country. we are going to make sure he gets the best capability and it is done affordably. >>> a tunisian man known to have six aliases from three different countries. he had been under surveillance for months and he is likely armed and definitely dangerous. charlie d'agata reports. >> reporter: the europe wide alert, anis amri, six names and multiple fake nationalities. police put a $100,000 bounty on his head and warned he is armed and dangerous. detectives found amri's identification papers in a wallet he left behind under the driver's seat of the truck that plowed into the christmas ma

working, but i wonder, it seems to be markedly difference for other corporations, like ford or boeing or lockheed martincarrier whom he has attacked. they can't really come out and use that as advertising, right? why is it different for them? >> it's very different for we in the press, "the new york times" and "the new yorker" where i work, we've all seen huge spikes in circulation and subscriptions since trump's election, because people are thinking this will be a time in american history when good journalism matters. his attacks on the press often backfire, it gets people more interested in what we do and our circulation goes up. for corporations, especially publicly traded corporations that have major business before the federal government, like if you are united technologies which has billions of dollars in contracts with the federal government, that affects the stock value, of course, because people think, wait a second, the president of the united states, who will be in charge of the federal budget, suddenly has a beef and will take it out on this publicly traded company, maybe these contracts are

of his campaign and heading towards his presidency and inauguration, you have the likes of ford, lockheed martinmazon, december of last year, going after jeff bezos, the founder there. we looked at more recent examples of some of these companies and their stocks and how they performed. and there's no doubt that trump causes a dip in their stocks. does it last is the question. when it comes to rex nord, remember that tweet, moving to mexico, viciously firing all of its workers. this is not happening. no more. well, that stock took a deep. in the two or three days following since that tweet, the market did take a dip on the stock, but then it are recovered. it's now lower overall but still one example. second one out there is the big one for boeing after the air force one tweet, the $4 billion in cost overruns, cancel the order. what did boeing's stock do? you look at this. we saw maybe about a 1% dip in boeing's stock on the heels of that. and then five days later, higher stock there, it's given back a little the last couple days but still short lived move for the stock. one more to focus on here

martin and before ms. ford speaks i will call up the next set of speaker cards. [calling speaker names] >> good afternoon supervisor. yes, i want to thank each and every one of you for your support for this three year effort that coming finally to fruition today. i want to echo what the previous speaker said as i feel about city college. he couldn't have said it more beautifully so i won't talk about the college and that experience right now. i want to talk about san francisco values and i am connie ford and reporting jobs for justice and coalition of ten, 12 unions and community organizations that made funding free and free city college a priority for the last three years and the boots on the ground to do the hard work that we did to support this initiative but it's about values. it's truly about values and our values that we talk about in san francisco of educating everybody here, everybody here, is something we can do for really not that much money. i mean we can pay for this. prop w the controller is saying $14 million is probably going to come in the next si

martin and before ms. ford speaks i will call up the next set of speaker cards. [calling speaker names] >> good afternoon supervisor. yes, i want to thank each and every one of you for your support for this three year effort that coming finally to fruition today. i want to echo what the previous speaker said as i feel about city college. he couldn't have said it more beautifully so i won't talk about the college and that experience right now. i want to talk about san francisco values and i am connie ford and reporting jobs for justice and coalition of ten, 12 unions and community organizations that made funding free and free city college a priority for the last three years and the boots on the ground to do the hard work that we did to support this initiative but it's about values. it's truly about values and our values that we talk about in san francisco of educating everybody here, everybody here, is something we can do for really not that much money. i mean we can pay for this. prop w the controller is saying $14 million is probably going to come in the next si

martin headquarters in bethesda, maryland, 11:00 a.m. on wall street, and "squawk alley" is live. good monday morning, welcome to "squawk alley." i'm carl quintanilla with john ford, kayla tausche this morning at post nine. first it was utx, now boeing, and now donald trump has a new target, lockheed martin. speaking with chris wallace on fox news on sunday. we don't have that sound, but he did talk to chris wallace, and, of course, the tweets followed up this morning, in which he talked about the cost of the f-35, the cost overruns, the amount of money he hopes to save. bill george joins us this morning, cnbc contributor, former exxon board member. bill, good morning to you. >> carl, good to be back on the best show on cable tv. >> here we are again. do you see any pattern emerging here regarding trump and his willingness to call out individual companies? >> well, this is a president who knows how to use social media, and he's going to target it. frankly, i'm happy to see him going after cost overruns in the department of defense. i spent the first three years of my career back in the late '60s doing this, and i'm not sure we made much progress, and i think thes

you know, ford, this comes on the heels of donald trump calling out boeing, lockheed martin, carrier. but trump is doing sort of this naming and shaming via tweeting. i mean, is it don't fear the tweeter? [laughter] you know, should -- is this a good way to do policy? i'm not saying trump tweeted anything about ibm, but are companies worried about being named and shamed via twitter? >> well, i think that donald trump as president-elect is certainly rewriting the rules here, and i think what he's trying to do overall is to put -- look, he is taking a populist, unconventional approach to this. i don't think long term it's a good idea to shame company out loud because it can mess with the markets and drive down stock prices and cost jobs, but he's really sending a message to congress that he wants to put forth reforms and that he is going to be on the side of the american people. and if they follow him, we're going to actually have a revitalized economy, because there's a lot of tricky dealing going out there. and trump told you at the end of the day he was going to be on the side of the

martin and before ms. ford speaks i will call up the next set of speaker cards. [calling speaker names] >> good afternoon supervisor. yes, i want to thank each and every one of you for your support for this three year effort that coming finally to fruition today. i want to echo what the previous speaker said as i feel about city college. he couldn't have said it more beautifully so i won't talk about the college and that experience right now. i want to talk about san francisco values and i am connie ford and reporting jobs for justice and coalition of ten, 12 unions and community organizations that made funding free and free city college a priority for the last three years and the boots on the ground to do the hard work that we did to support this initiative but it's about values. it's truly about values and our values that we talk about in san francisco of educating everybody here, everybody here, is something we can do for really not that much money. i mean we can pay for this. prop w the controller is saying $14 million is probably going to come in the next si

bureau chief sam ford are reports on what they call the mural flap in congress heights and he will tell you what is next for piece of art. sam: it's the 3m mural, martin, marion barry. >> that is not martin luther king. >> bill cosby, fred g. sanford. [laughter] sam: they can't figure out who they are. they financed it at $1,500. an artist who took the contract said he spent most of it on l >> the equipment would not elevate to the highest height because of how unlevel the parking lot was. sam: for the mural -- >> it doesn't look like them. >> it's not finished. >> it's a disgrace to congress heights and disgrace to the legacy of those three men. sam: people at the bus stop seem to have question who the figures were, they all seemed to like the artwork. the artist says he will paint over those on the wall with canvas and paste over them. yet some are saying paint over the wall with yellow paint and make the mural disappear. in southeast washington, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. larry: if you add lamont and grady -- alison: i felt bad for the artist. give him another try. larry: everybody is a critic. we love it. a call for he in st. mary's county finding a

recommendation ed martin and republican strategist and author of "the conservative case for trump" and here in new york green democratic strategist. hang in there ed for one second. adam, carrier, fordn, sprint, japanese investments, jobs, it's all good right. >> america is great. i want to make news on the factor if that's okay. the organization i run will be creating some jobs in 2017. go to our website bold progressive.org and apply. announcement number two it had nothing to do with donald trump. we are we need people to for us. same thing applies for sprint. >> you heard it there. because of what they call hope sprint has decided to stay here. ed, your thoughts on all these people these corporations decided to keep all these jobs in america. >> look, eric, i'm just exhausted from winning. too much winning. i can't believe it. no, look, i think what adam is saying actually, what he said in making his announcement, economics is psychology. people have to believe that people things are getting better. what trump has been a master at. heading toward it. very exciting. looking up going wow, really good things happening. i'm glad obama and him buried the hatchet. keep going. >> how do

sprint, with how ford has responded and i think how we've seen jimmy of ibm respond. 25,000 jobs they want to bring into the country and of course united technologies and lockheed martinhave done a good job, and boeing, of making their case. don't come back at him with insult, you're not going to win. the aeroo space spri, 95% of the jobs they produce are manufactured here in the country. it's a huge export and probably one of the few sectors where we command global -- not getting caught up. or relying on trade associations. too often, we have seen ceo os going for collective action. we've had a 700% increase by trade associations in the last 25 years and 80% of ceos say they're frustrated. >> let's bring in steven. steve. >> no i think jeff's right. government has been part of the equation for business leaders for ever. we've got laws coming out of congress. we've had the regulatory machine coming at us, the ju sector making decisions. this is very, very simple. the president-elect ran on a message. to create jobs in america, make america great again. he called out companies that were moving jobs. he has done so since the campaign has been finished. it's refreshing a