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Understanding AI

How to think like an economist about AI and jobs

There will be plenty of demand for human-provided services.

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Timothy B. Lee
Nov 22, 2024
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Yesterday I argued that human workers were likely to have a durable advantage over AI because many people value services provided by other people. I got a number of responses similar to this one from commenter “Performative Bafflement”:

This article is obvious cope.

Yes, maybe the elite are still going to check into human-cleaned hotels, human-served rest…

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