Bookmark: AI is going to eliminate way more jobs than anyone realizes
AI is set to disrupt millions of jobs, demanding urgent workforce reskilling while creating new opportunities in the evolving job market.
I’ve been reading Emil Skandul’s piece on AI’s impact on the global economy. It’s fascinating to see how AI could disrupt millions of jobs while unlocking massive opportunities. Skandul makes a compelling case for urgent workforce reskilling. The future is coming at us faster than I expected.
A compelling quote from the article is: “I do not think we’ll see mass unemployment," Brynjolfsson, who anticipates AI spreading faster than other general-purpose technologies, told me. “But I do think we’ll see mass disruption, where a lot of wages for some jobs will fall, wages for other jobs will rise, and we’ll be shifting around into demand for different kinds of skills. They’ll have to be a lot of reallocation of labor and rescaling of labor with winners and losers.”
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Bookmark: The next wave of automation: Will AI disrupt more high-skill jobs?
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Bookmark: 41% of employers worldwide say they’ll reduce staff by 2030 due to AI
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