“A.I., if used well, can assist with restoring the middle-skill, middle-class heart of the U.S. labor market,” David Autor, a labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote. David Autor seems an unlikely A.I. optimist. The labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is best known for his in-depth studies showing how much technology and trade have eroded the incomes of millions of American workers over the years.
But Mr. Autor is now making the case that the new wave of technology — generative artificial intelligence, which can produce hyper-realistic images and video and convincingly imitate humans’ voices […]
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