The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, has announced the leadership of its task forces "to advance the conduct of monetary policy," and one of the leaders is Asha Sharma, the CEO of Xbox, whom you might also know as the person who has just laid off 3,200 people in her company.

But it gets even more ironic: Sharma will be responsible for productivity and jobs. Along with Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, and Charles I. Jones, professor of economics at Stanford University, she will "assess the economic impact of new general-purpose technologies, including artificial intelligence, to inform the Federal Reserve's policy judgments."