Economists clash: GenAI automation cuts US wages, Danish data shows no effect
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-16
Economist paulnovosad challenges a GenAI-wages paper, arguing its diff-in-diff on exposure percentiles says nothing about aggregate wage or employment loss. He stresses the key distinction between exposure to job automation and workers merely adopting AI tools—a debate set against a Danish dataset showing no AI effect on earnings.
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