@DaveShapi: The framing that all of them assume: humans will have some differentiable advantage over machines. They are all wrong. …
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Dave Shapira argues that economists' assumption of a persistent human advantage over machines is wrong, referencing a WSJ piece on AI's diverging impact on labor markets.
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The framing that all of them assume: humans will have some differentiable advantage over machines.
They are all wrong.
This is why pure economics misses some obvious things.
We need mathematicians, physicists, and technologists to weigh in as well..
Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai): A new WSJ piece. AI is splitting labor economists because the same evidence supports 3 futures: higher productivity with new work, painful disruption for older and mid-skill workers, or a break from wage-based income if machines become broad substitutes for human labor.
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