New York startup Hyperscience raises $60m in bid to become automation software’s next breakout

It’s an argument that raises a larger philosophical question about software: are all jobs created equal? Is a local job lost more valuable than one (or two) created far away? What happens when customers don’t act in good faith, but use tech like Hyperscience’s to maximize profits by eliminating roles without replacing them anywhere else? “None of us are politicians or [social] experts, we’re a software company,” Brodsky tells Forbes in a follow-up interview. “But one of our core values is equality for all… and it’s one of the reasons we’re building what we’re building.”

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