New Aspen Institute paper maps AI's labor market impact and calls for rapid retraining
robseamans · x · 2026-09-22
Economist Rob Seamans published an Aspen Institute article laying out the evidence to date on AI adoption, productivity effects, and labor market disruption.
Central thesis: in an environment with lots of information asymmetry about which skills will be needed, mechanisms to rapidly retrain the workforce are essential — a skills-aligned policy response should precede, not follow, the disruption.
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