Three Economists Lay Out Clashing Views on AI's Impact on Jobs

The Wall Street Journal published a discussion in which three labor economists set out why predictions of AI's impact on employment range so widely — from new job creation to large-scale displacement — and defended their own positions. The participants were MIT's David Autor, the University of Virginia's Anton Korinek, and Martha Gimbel, who leads Yale University's Budget Lab, highlighting how the same technology and data can lead to opposite conclusions. Article