Labor, Automation, and AI - Social Discussion


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Are college graduates already seeing the impact of AI automation on the entry-level job market? What are the economics around the impact of automation on jobs? How should we respond to the labor impact of AI?
Come join Triangle Heterodox for a social discussion on the topic of AI automation and its impact on jobs and labor! This is a friendly discussion and we welcome new and old members. We will ask that you read the below three articles and come having thought about these questions:
- Do you believe AI will follow the trend of past labor automation and technologies, creating new job types?
- What will be the new content types for jobs after AI? Is the "22 New Jobs" article compelling to you on this?
- How should we respond to lowered wages or displacement of labor by automation?
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Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Replaces Labor - Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.33.2.3
- At a minimum, read first 7 and last 3 pages.
For Some Recent Grads, the AI Apocalypse May Already Be Here - NYT
https://archive.ph/Y6d00
22 New Jobs A.I. Could Give You - NYT
https://archive.ph/MZt6K
Extra Credit Reads - Two Policy Sketches for Responding to AI Automation
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-job-loss-displacement-labor-reallocation-welfare-state
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/automation-and-ai-will-disrupt-the-american-labor-force-heres-how-we-can-protect-workers/

Labor, Automation, and AI - Social Discussion