Thanks for this review of recent research. I did my own review at the end of last year and came away with very similar conclusions, i.e., no evidence of widespread job losses but still bad news for college grads and people in highly ai-exposed occupations. As for China, I’m glad you put “win” in quotes. After all, what exactly does that mean? Does “winning” mean we have to treat workers so poorly that we too have to install suicide nets outside our factories?
Thanks for this review of recent research. I did my own review at the end of last year and came away with very similar conclusions, i.e., no evidence of widespread job losses but still bad news for college grads and people in highly ai-exposed occupations. As for China, I’m glad you put “win” in quotes. After all, what exactly does that mean? Does “winning” mean we have to treat workers so poorly that we too have to install suicide nets outside our factories?
Indeed, nobody knows yet what “winning the AI race” looks like in practice, Thomas
Doesn’t China have more industrial robots because we already outsourced industrial production to China? Plus, China is massive
buried twelve sections down: china discontinued 12,000 university programs and added 10,000 new ones in four years
that's the actual story.
not the "is it AI or isn't it" debate happening in the US labor market reports
we're still arguing about definitions while another country already restructured its entire education pipeline around the answer