AI could enable more nurses to do the jobs of doctors. Photo: Maskot (Getty Images) AI is indeed changing the labor market, see the flood of news articles on layoffs happening in part due to companies’ priorities shifting to AI . Now a new working paper from Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist David Autor says that the shift presents a unique opportunity: AI could enable more workers to perform higher-stakes, decision-making tasks that are currently relegated to highly-educated workers such as doctors and lawyers.
Thanks to computers, information is now cheap, abundant, and accessible. As Autor puts it, that’s handed […]
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