What Casey Newton thinks about interest rates

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1. 28 Aug 2026

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

   AI and jobs

   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.

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