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The problem with automation | Steve LeVine reports on several papers from economists Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo that disrupt the smug assumption that AI and robots will create more jobs than they destroy:
A drumbeat of studies has pushed back hard against concern over the accelerated automation of factories and other businesses, predicting that — just as industrial age advances have always done — robots will produce many more jobs than they destroy.
But in three new papers, two leading U.S. labor…
