Rethinking AI Impact on Job Market
This is a good argument to just keep running with things. It’s inevitable that we would get too much wrong if we tried to engineer the job market to prevent impact from AI.
“It’s understandable that we might want to steer or shape the development of AI technology so that it maximizes the benefits for workers, and avoids the “replacement” part. But there is a big problem with the idea — namely that no one, including Daron Acemoglu or any economist, has any idea how to predict which technologies will augment humans and which will simply replace their labor.”—Why trying to shape AI innovation to protect workers is a bad idea
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