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Casey Newton

What Casey Newton thinks about AI and jobs

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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.

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  1. Our readingAI, not macroeconomic factors like interest rates, is directly responsible for a significant share of current job losses.

    interest rates

    Their wordsBut I think there have been enough studies now isolating those variables that show that AI is directly responsible for a lot of this job loss.

    ↗How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her jobplatformer.news 1st of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingUniversal basic income alone will not address the economic gap created by AI-driven job displacement.

    Their wordsI don't think that universal basic income on its own will address the gap that's widening.

    ↗How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her jobplatformer.news 3rd of 3 in this piece