The Inconvenient Truth About AI and Jobs
When it comes to job replacement, AI’s biases don’t fit the traditional one-dimensional metric of low-skill versus high-skill labor. Instead, AI creates a mixed bag of winners and losers depending on the particular content of job tasks performed. While AI has far surpassed humans at narrow tasks that can be optimized based on data, it remains stubb
... See moreKai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
First, during the industrial era, new technology has been associated with long-term job creation and wage growth. Second, despite this general trend toward economic improvement, GPTs are rare and substantial enough that each one’s impact on jobs should be evaluated independently. Third, of the three widely recognized GPTs of the modern era, the ski
... See moreKai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
People will desperately want rapid AI progress to slow down once it hits them hard. I’ve written extensively about labor market impacts before, but that’s not all there is on backlash: A lot of the deployment avenues for tomorrow’s frontier systems will feel fundamentally alien and scary to people. They’ll see automated systems doing things they th... See more
Advancements in technology have already displaced many low-skilled workers, and there’s more displacement to come.
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
