Daniel Rock: economists are skeptical of the exponential AI-unemployment premise
danielrock · x · 2026-10-28
Responding to Tobias Rees's question of whether AI-adoption research has uncritically assumed an exponential path to non-human markets or mass unemployment, Daniel Rock notes most academic economics work is fairly skeptical of that premise, and invites scholars including Rob Seamans, Martha Gimbel and Tania Babina to weigh in from different angles.
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