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Steve Miller: Will AI Take Your Job? It's Not So Simple.

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Is There More Opportunities for Augmentation Than Automation?

There's more opportunities for augmentation and I'm going to explain what I mean by augmentation versus automation in a moment. So an augmentation where the deployment is such that certain task or subtask are automated, but the person is not made redundant. In fact, the technology is used to complement and to increase the output and productive capability of the person. Automation obviously creates job opportunities for the tenders, the designers, the people in the outer loops, if you will. It, it drives down the wages.

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