Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots podcast. I'm Jill Eisenthal.
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Tracey, it may have changed a little bit in recent weeks or months, but I think by and large, by and large, if you talk to economists about the long term impact of AI, particularly on jobs, by and large, it seems like they point to history. And they say there have been many technologies in the past that people thought were gonna be very disruptive and destroy all kinds of jobs. Mhmm. And in many cases, they did. But technologies create new jobs. We can't necessarily anticipate them before beforehand what they're gonna be. And AI is, like, kinda no different ultimately.
Yes. But then to your point, you ask, like, well, what specific jobs do you have in mind? And I get that, you know, it's hard to tell. It's hard
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