Software that Learns by Doing

"Attempts to create self-improving software date to the 1960s. But "machine learning," as it's often called, has remained mostly the province of academic researchers, with only a few niche applications in the commercial world, such as speech recognition and credit card fraud detection. Now, researchers say, better algorithms, more powerful computers and a few clever tricks will move it further into the mainstream."
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Hmm... software that can handle programming and engineering problems better than human programmers and engineers. This just goes to show that our current system of government and economics will soon become obsolete.

How can our current economic system survive when humans no longer perform any jobs within the economy, but robots powered by AI instead?