Is AI doing the same thing to white-collar jobs that industrialization did to farming?
Summary
The article compares AI's potential impact on white-collar jobs to industrialization's effect on farming, arguing that just as farm automation drastically reduced agricultural labor demand, AI will similarly shrink computer-based white-collar work.
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