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Drawn from what Dario Amodei 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: If the work does go, the answer to it is unsettled
If AI-driven labor displacement ends up being large in magnitude and permanently drives down the demand for labor, it will likely be necessary to go beyond mere incentive programs to long-term income support for a significant fraction of the labor force.
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Universal basic income is at most a small part of the answer to AI-driven job loss.
Amodei holds both of these: that long-term income support will be needed for a significant share of the workforce, and that UBI is at most a small part of the answer. Not a contradiction, since income support need not take the form of UBI, but the two sit uneasily together and the gap between them is where the actual policy argument lives.
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The case for long-term income support rests on the displacement being real and large enough to permanently depress demand for labour.
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