Policymakers and the public are grappling with the rise of artificial intelligence and its potential impacts on workers. Some fear massive job losses from automation while others argue these concerns are overblown, instead highlighting the potential for new job creation. Debates and anxiety around automation and jobs are not new and have occurred throughout history . In an essay from 1930, famed economist John Maynard Keynes stated, “We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they will hear a great deal in the years to […]
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