Every automation wave in history created more jobs than it destroyed. Will AI be different?
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Throughout history, automation waves displaced workers but created new jobs requiring uniquely human skills, like when farm mechanization moved workers into manufacturing and services. However, AI may break this pattern by targeting cognitive abilities that previously remained exclusively human, potentially accelerating job displacement without generating sufficient new employment opportunities.
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