What Benedict Evans thinks about AI and jobs

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Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.

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Our readingAnother platform shift, not a break in history: the new technology will be built on for ten or fifteen years, then something else will replace it.

Their wordsMy sort of base case is to say this is kind of another platform shift and all the new stuff will be built around this for the next 10 or 15 years and then there'll be something else and so the impact on employment will be kind of like the impact on employment from the other platform shifts

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