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How AI could help rebuild the middle class

Planet Money

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Introduction

Nick Fountain: There's been all this doom and gloom about AI. He says a study shows that it could help workers get better at their jobs. Nick talks to MIT professor David Otter, widely regarded as one of the greatest labor economists in the world. The American middle class has been shrinking for more than 40 years. Could AI help reverse that trend?

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