Anton Korinek

Anton Korinek, a University of Virginia professor specializing in AI's economic and workforce impacts, dives into AI's transformative potential. He discusses the balance between AI-driven productivity gains and automation's threats to white-collar jobs. The conversation touches on universal basic income, career planning in the age of AI, and the need for workforce adaptation. Korinek also highlights the implications of AI in sectors like fintech and podcasting, emphasizing equitable access to technology and the necessity for reskilling workers in a rapidly evolving economy.

Anton Korinek talks about automation's impact on wages, tasks complexity, Moravec's paradox, career transitions, intelligence explosion economics, lump of labor fallacy, universal basic income, and market structure in AI industry.