Researcher slams AI-adoption jobs paper for conflating learning curves with model progress
davidmanheim · x · 2026-11-15
David Manheim criticizes a study on firm AI adoption and employment for assuming firms differ only in adoption timing. He argues early adopters used worse systems, and the paper mixes organizational learning rates with AI technical progress, making its Jan 2021–present averaging methodologically unsound.
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