Highlights: #161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite from 80k After Hours

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Highlights: #161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite

31 minutes Posted Oct 19, 2023 at 5:48 pm.

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The jobs most exposed to robots, software and AI

How automation can actually *create* jobs

How automation affects employment at the individual level

How long it took other game-changing technologies to have economy-wide effects

Ways LLMs might be similar to previous technologies

Whether AI will be rolled out faster than government can regulate it

Whether AI will cause mass unemployment in the long term

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #161 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:

Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour and Milo McGuire

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