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Munk Dialogue with James Bessen: how AI will transform the labour market
The Munk Debates Podcast
The Disruption of the Knowledge Workforce
As a knowledge-based society throughout most of the West, why won't the disruption be bigger maybe than even some of the most skeptical critics of AI could suggest? There's two parts to that answer. One is the knowledge worker jobs have been under attack from automation for over two decades and we haven't seen the bad effects. But the other side of it is that automation doesn't necessarily mean a loss of jobs. It's very rare that an entire job is eliminated by automation. That's what everybody thinks. The reason is our jobs are very complex and they do lots of things,. I only found one occupation where there's a clear-cut case that automation eliminated the job, and that
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