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Drawn from what Tyler Cowen said
AI and jobs Whether AI displaces human work, which jobs go first, and what replaces them.
On the topicWill AI take the jobs?under our view: The confident forecasts are themselves the overreach
I do not see AI as driving these changes, but an interesting result nonetheless
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Cowen, looking at the falling college wage premium, says AI is not the main cause. Amodei says half of entry-level white-collar work could go within one to five years. Both can hold — the displacement Amodei forecasts has largely not happened yet — but Cowen is reading the first data that would show it beginning and finding nothing.
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