Discussion: The Impact of AI on Employment
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-07-15
This repost links to a lengthy article discussing the relationship between AI and employment, with the core viewpoints being:
- The title asserts "You just hired a million bad employees," aiming to refute the simplistic narrative that AI will directly replace human labor.
- Excerpts from the article argue that AI might make human labor cheaper in certain scenarios and could even create more jobs, rather than unidirectionally eliminating them.
- Such discussions focus not on specific products, but on the long-term impacts of AI on the labor market, organizational structures, and modes of production.
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