Critics push back on GenAI wage paper's framing: wages rose least in exposed jobs, not declined
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-16
paulnovosad challenges the GenAI wage paper's claim that "wages and separations declined significantly more in occupations more exposed to GenAI automation." The earlier version's chart shows real wages rose across groups, rising least in AI-exposed jobs. He suggests reframing as "real wages increased the least in AI-exposed occupations," highlighting the difference between relative and absolute declines in tech-disruption narratives.
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